[Gretl-users] ODS importer

[Sven Schreiber]

Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> 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.
> 

<just sent Allin a file off list where the top two rows are empty, the
third row holds the labels, and then the actual data start at row 4>

Actually, if I tell gretl to start reading at row 2 (instead of 3), I
get a strange error: 'sheet row 2, column 2("const"): expected date
string but found numerical value' (where the row-2/col-2-cell in fact is
empty).

thanks,
sven