On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> I'm having a problem with what may be called variable "lifetime" or
> scope. Consider the two trivial scripts:
>
> <script1>
> scalar temp = 1
> </script1>
>
> <script2>
> matrix temp = muniform(2,1)
> </script2>
>
> If I run both of them in this order, the second one gives an error,
> apparently because gretl doesn't like to put a matrix result into the
> scalar variable temp...
>
> (BTW, I know that the 'open' command clears gretl's workspace, which
> would probably be the solution here. But I find myself doing more and
> more with gretl's nice matrix language without opening datafiles. So
> maybe a 'clear' command is needed?)

"dataset clear" will do the job.

Allin Cottrell

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