Dropping data frames

[Sergiy Radyakin]

Hello All,

just a quick question: is there any deep underlying reason why I can do

drop var1 var2

but can't do

frame drop frame1 frame2

?

(results in error 7 something found where nothing expected)

Thank you, Sergiy Radyakin

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

Deep? Not likely. More likely it is for the superficial reason that the syntax for frame drop supports exactly one frame name. A simple for loop will achieve the effect, and I don't see why that couldn't be incorporated in the command. It's very common to want to stop several variables at once, but people usually work with one or few frames at a time, so my guess is there want much need to drop frames in bulk. I also don't think it's reasonable to necessarily expect the same syntax/behaviour for two similarly named commands.