Eviews 9 Command and Programming Reference Eviews 9 Command and Programming Reference Copyright © 1994–2015 IHS Global Inc
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EViews 9 Command and Programming Reference EViews 9 Command and Programming Reference Copyright © 1994–2015 IHS Global Inc. All Rights Reserved ISBN: 978-1-880411-29-2 This software product, including program code and manual, is copyrighted, and all rights are reserved by IHS Global Inc. The distribution and sale of this product are intended for the use of the original purchaser only. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this product may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of IHS Global Inc. Disclaimer The authors and IHS Global Inc. assume no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual or the EViews program. The user assumes all responsibility for the selection of the pro- gram to achieve intended results, and for the installation, use, and results obtained from the pro- gram. Trademarks EViews® is a registered trademark of IHS Global Inc. Windows, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Corpora- tion. X11.2 and X12-ARIMA Version 0.2.7, and X-13ARIMA-SEATS are seasonal adjustment pro- grams developed by the U. S. Census Bureau. Tramo/Seats is copyright by Agustin Maravall and Victor Gomez. Info-ZIP is provided by the persons listed in the infozip_license.txt file. Please refer to this file in the EViews directory for more information on Info-ZIP. Zlib was written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. More information on zlib can be found in the zlib_license.txt file in the EViews directory. Bloomberg is a trademark of Bloomberg Finance L.P. All other prod- uct names mentioned in this manual may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respec- tive companies. IHS Global Inc. 4521 Campus Drive, #336 Irvine CA, 92612-2621 Telephone: (949) 856-3368 Fax: (949) 856-2044 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.eviews.com April 15, 2015 Table of Contents PREFACE . 1 CHAPTER 1. OBJECT AND COMMAND BASICS . 3 Command Capture . 3 Using Commands . 5 Object Declaration and Initialization . 14 Object Commands . 17 Object Data Members . 21 Interactive Commands . 22 Auxiliary Commands . 22 CHAPTER 2. WORKING WITH GRAPHS . 33 Creating a Graph . 33 Changing Graph Types . 37 Customizing a Graph . 38 Labeling Graphs . 54 Printing Graphs . 55 Exporting Graphs to Files . 55 Graph Summary . 56 CHAPTER 3. WORKING WITH TABLES AND SPREADSHEETS . 57 Creating a Table . 57 Assigning Table Values . 58 Customizing Tables . 60 Labeling Tables . 66 Printing Tables . 66 Exporting Tables to Files . 66 Customizing Spreadsheet Views . 67 Table Summary . 68 CHAPTER 4. WORKING WITH SPOOLS . 69 Creating a Spool . 69 Working with a Spool . 70 Printing the Spool . 74 Spool Summary . 75 ii—Table of Contents CHAPTER 5. STRINGS AND DATES . 77 Strings . .77 Dates . .94 CHAPTER 6. EVIEWS PROGRAMMING . .117 Program Basics . .117 Simple Programs . .124 Program Variables . .126 Program Modes . .134 Program Arguments . .136 Program Options . .137 Control of Execution . .138 Multiple Program Files . .148 Subroutines . .149 User-Defined Dialogs . .159 Version 4 Compatibility Notes . .169 References . .173 CHAPTER 7. EXTERNAL CONNECTIVITY . .175 Reading EViews Data . .175 EViews COM Automation Server . .177 EViews COM Automation Client Support (MATLAB and R) . .177 EViews Database Extension Interface . .184 CHAPTER 8. ADD-INS . .187 What is an Add-in? . .187 Getting Started with Add-ins . .187 Using Add-ins . .191 Add-ins Examples . ..