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I am forecasting monthly data each month and would like to combine the forecast observations with the actual observations for the out of sample period (add 2012M8 forecast, say, to a series ending 2012M7) automatically. At present I do this manually, using the "fill" command, but that requires specifying the data to begin the fill. Is there a way of specifying the "o" option in fill in a way that automatically finds the last non-missing observation in the actual series and begins the fill from there (the date value of @last for the actual series plus one should do it, but I can't figure out the syntax)? What am I missing?

Should I use @recode()? If so, how?

Some other method? Thanks!!

By default when you perform a forecast, EViews will fill in the actual values for any periods that are not in the forecast sample.

Notice Gareth says, by default. You may explicitly ask EViews to fill the out-of-forecast-sample values with NAs.

Resetting the sample forecast period does the trick. Thanks!