Re: a simple question

[Paolo: you need to send mail to the address above, not
gretl-users-owner.]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Paolo Malanima wrote:

> I would need an information!
> 
> Is there the possibility to start a time series with a year preceding
> 1700? For economic historians this possibility is important. I see that
> if you start a series with the year 1500, the system corrects and starts
> with 1700.

The GUI program takes 1700 as the earliest starting year, but you can override 
that from the console / script, as in

nulldata 400
setobs 1 1500

You now have annual data, 1500 to 1899.

Allin Cottrell