pdynmc (version 0.9.6)

data.info: Show Basic Structure of Panel Dataset.

Description

data.info shows basic structure of a balanced/unbalanced panel dataset contained in a `data.frame`.

Usage

data.info(object, i.name = NULL, t.name = NULL, ...)

Arguments

object

An object of class `data.frame`.

i.name

Column name of cross-section identifier.

t.name

Column name of time-series identifier.

...

further arguments.

Value

Returns information if panel dataset contained in an object of class `data.frame` is a balanced or unbalanced panel dataset.

See Also

pdynmc for fitting a linear dynamic panel data model.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## Load data from plm package
if(!requireNamespace("plm", quietly = TRUE)){
 stop("Dataset from package \"plm\" needed for this example.
 Please install the package.", call. = FALSE)
} else{
 data(EmplUK, package = "plm")
 dat <- EmplUK
 dat[,c(4:7)] <- log(dat[,c(4:7)])
 dat <- dat[c(1:140), ]

## Code example
 data.info(dat, i.name = "firm", t.name = "year")

 data.info(dat[dat$year %in% 1979:1981, ], i.name = "firm", t.name = "year")
}


# }