[Gretl-users] ODS importer

[Sven Schreiber]

Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> In current CVS (and Windows snapshot) there's an Open Document 
> Spreadsheet importer
> 
> /File/Open data/Import/Open Document...
> 
> If people could test it, that would be very helpful.  If it 
> crashes all over the place we can hide it for the forthcoming 
> release, otherwise leave it visible.
> 
> It does not currently have handling for string-coded variables, 
> only numeric data.  It should be able to extract time-series 
> information from dates/periods in the first column reasonably 
> well.
> 

If you mean it doesn't read in the variable labels then I can confirm
that. (Instead it generically names the variables as v1, v2, etc.)

But hey, it's working! So thanks a lot for the quick implementation. I
will shortly close the corresponding feature request issue on
sourceforge, or let's say change it to ask for the capability of reading
in the variable names. (BTW, I will also close the Excel 2003 issue soon
since it appears to be a non-issue, at least nobody could give a failing
example, right?)

Some comments though:

1) why only an entry in "open data", not in "append data" as well?

(BTW, I would suggest to match the ordering of data formats in those two
submenus.)

2) I suggest not adding more features before 1.6.6. Apart from the
possibility of breaking stuff by late additions, new features often
require a translation update; and I for example was hoping that the
German translation for 1.6.6 is settled by now.

3) Is there a potential issue with locale and decimal separator settings
differing between Openoffice and gretl?

Thanks,
Sven