Re: [Gretl-devel] 'join' with gdt files
Am 16.10.2014 um 19:46 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> I remembered that join only works with .csv files, as duly
mentioned in
> the docs. Then all worked nicely; however, from a little distance now I
> must say that this feels a little "lame", gretl not being able to use
> its own files!?
That could be implemented. It would take a while: while we can easily find
our way around in our own files, a lot of the code was initially tailored
to the CSV assumption. I think we took it for granted that the principal
real-world use of join would be with files from third-party sources.
Yes, fair enough. In the present case I'm using 'join' as a kind of
workaround to the problem that appending to panel data is too fragile
IMO if you don't use index variables, which you can only do with 'join'.
So the first-best (longer-term) solution would be to enhance the
handling of panel datasets. The 'join' thing would be the second-best
solution.
-s