[Gretl-users] HELP FOR IMPORT DATA FROM EXCEL AND STATA

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Hebert Suarez Cahuana wrote:

> I try to import data from Excel but I receive the next message, No se 
> pudo cargar la función enchufe (plugin) . also when I try import data 
> from Stata format I receive the next message  Fallo al importar los 
> datos. I use Ubuntu 8.04 linux. Could you help me? I am learning Gretl, 
> It is a good program, but I can't import my data to Gretl.

Those functionalities come from .so files you should have on your computer 
somewhere where gretl can find them. Excel import, for example, is handled 
by a file called excel_import.so. Either you don't have those files, or 
gretl can't find them.

Possibly, all you have to do is adjust the "Main gretl directory" setting 
that you have under Tools>Preferences>General. Otherwise, some more info 
is needed: which version of gretl are you running? How did you install it, 
via a binary package or did you build from source?



Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche

r.lucchetti at univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti