NAMELIST function

Named List of Time Series

In the case of strings input, this function returns a string array built with the input strings. In the case of time series input, this function returns a list built with the input time series; the output list names will be the variable names passed as arguments.

NAMELIST(...)

Arguments

• ...: List of strings or list of time series. In the case of a list of strings, if an input string is not eligible to be a variable name, e.g. a string composed only with numbers, or with special characters, a warning will be thrown and a message will describe the required change made to the input string in order to make it eligible to be a variable name (see example).

Returns

In the case of strings as input, this function returns a string array built with the input strings. In the case of time series as input, this function returns a list built with the input time series; the output list names will be the variable names passed as arguments.

See Also

NOELS

is.bimets

BIMETS indexing

TSERIES

GETYEARPERIOD

LOCS

Examples

#NAMELIST with time series...
        
        ts1<-TSERIES(1:10,START=c(2000,1),FREQ=12)
        ts2<-TSERIES(10:20,START=c(2002,5),FREQ=12)
        myNameList<-NAMELIST(ts1,ts2)
        print(myNameList)
        
        #prints a list with $ts1 and $ts2 elements 
        #please note that names are 'ts1' and 'ts2'...  
        #$ts1
        #     Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct
        #2000   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10
        
        #$ts2
        #     Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
        #2002                  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17
        #2003  18  19  20
        
        
        
        #define strange namelist
        #print warnings... '' converted in 'X', '9' converted in 'X9'
        myNAMELIST<-NAMELIST('pp','oo','ii','','9');
        
        print(myNAMELIST)