[Gretl-users] Request: options in reading excel data files

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Peter Davidoff wrote:

> It has been nearly 5 years since I have used Eviews.  But the 
> import from XLS was so bad back then that I wrote a several page 
> tutorial for other members of my econometrics class.  I 
> understand that the tutorial is still being circulated.
> 
> As a point of reference, I have had no complaints from student 
> regarding import of data into GRETL from any of the 5 
> econometric classes that I have taught... but we only import 
> data that has been spit out of Excel into tab, space, or command 
> delimited format.

Thanks for the info.  I haven't used current Eviews, but the last 
time I tried importing into Eviews from XLS it struck me as a 
terrible pain, consistent with what you're saying.

Allin Cottrell