[Gretl-devel] Re: New feature
On Sat, 25 May 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 25.05.2019 um 17:46 schrieb "Daniel Marín":
> Hi, I think it would be very useful if users could specify a row in the
> worksheet to be assigned as variable labels and specify other row for
> variable names. This would be appreciated if possible also in other
> formats as csv. Ut would save a lot of time and problems.
> For example enabling an option in the "labels" command.
> I also would let the names and labels be of a longer number of
> characteres, very especially the labels, as in many cases the
> descriptions of series are considerably long.
> Thank you for your attention, I ignore if this would be very complicated
> to do, so forgive me if i ask for too much.
> Best regards,
Hi, maybe it's just me, but I don't really understand the request. Could
you give an example of what you have in mind when you talk about
veriable labels vs. veraiable names?
I think that what Daniel has in mind is a csv file like this:
<csv>
x,y
"first label","second label",
2,3
4,5
0,1
</csv>
At present, reading a file like that is possible, but involves a bit of
scripting (I can provide an example if needed).
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Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
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http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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