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RATS Standard 7.1
Interface and Data Management
Interactive RATS Editor
- Interactive text-editor interface makes it easy to write, test, modify, and re-run programs
- Menu-driven Wizards for many functions, including reading data, estimating regressions, and more
- Output can be directed to spreadsheet style windows for easy exporting or copying-and-pasting into other applications
Batch Mode
- Complete programs can be executed in batch mode from the command
prompt, by dragging and dropping from Windows Explorer, or by clicking
on a shortcut icon.
Graphics
- High-quality time series graphics
- High-resolution X-Y scatter plots
- Dual-scale graphs
- Contour graphs
- Copy-and-paste graphs into other applications
- Export graphs to many formats, including PostScript and WMF
Data Entry and Output
- Menu-driven “Data Wizard” for reading in data
- Reads and writes Excel XLS, WKS, ASCII, DIF, PRN, DBF, and other data files
- Can read Haver Analytics database files
- On-screen data editor
- Can handle virtually any data frequency, including daily, weekly, intra-day, and panel data
- RATS data file format is fast and easy, supports all
frequencies, and allows you to store series of different frequencies on
the same file
- Easy to convert data to different frequencies
Data Transformations
- Flexible transformations with algebraic formulas
- Easy to create trend series, seasonal, and time period dummies
- Specialized differencing and filtering operations
Programmable Interface
- Extensive looping capabilities and support for applying operations
to lists of variables make it possible to automate many repetitive
tasks.
- You can write procedures, which can perform complex tasks with a single instruction, and write your own callable functions.
- A library of procedures written by RATS users from around the world is available free of charge on our web site.
- A variety of interface-related instructions allow you to create your own drop-down menus, custom dialog boxes, and more.