[Gretl-users] ODS importer

[Sven Schreiber]

Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> 
>> <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 for the file, very helpful.
> 
> I didn't realize ODS does "number-row-repeated" as well as 
> "number-column-repeated".  The importer in CVS/snapshot should now 
> work better.

Thanks I will test tomorrow (hopefully).

> 
> However, on the date strings, I don't really feel like putting 
> a lot of work into fixing up data that are written back to front!
> (These data start in 2006 and end in 1997.)  That can be fixed 
> using sortby() followed by setobs.
> 

Of course, I wasn't complaining about that, it's just the first file I
came across on my disk.

cheers,
sven