[Gretl-users] ODS importer

[Allin Cottrell]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Allin Cottrell schrieb:

> > 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.)

No, I don't mean that, and with all the files I've tried 
(admittedly, not a huge number) variable names have been read 
correctly.  If you could send me a copy of a file where the names 
are not read, that would be helpful.

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

Yes, it should be under "append" too.

> 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.

Apart from ODS, there have been a few minor fixes lately that 
required small changes to translatable strings.  I'm updating 
gretl.pot in case anyone wants to have another go.  But I agree, 
no more features at this point.

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

I don't think so.  I believe that the internal numerical value 
fields in ODS files are always written using the C locale (though 
the displayed version may be locale-specific), and gretl forces 
the C locale when reading the files.

Allin.