Re: [Gretl-devel] Built-in spreadsheet improvement
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Henrique Andrade wrote:
Recently I convinced my organization (the largest Brazilian
bank) to replace EViews by Gretl.
Good work!
So I would like to request you to allow multiple selection on
Gretl's built-in spreadsheet in order to copy, cut, and paste
data just like Gnumeric, Excel, and others do. Is this possible?
Could you describe exactly what your colleagues would like to be
able to do?
Since gretl can read Excel, ODS and Gnumeric files, I would think
the easiest option for someone used to working with such files
would be to maintain one's datasets in a gretl-friendly
spreadsheet format and load them into gretl on demand.
In terms of modifications to gretl, I think it would be more
productive to spend time making "Data append/update" easier and
more fool-proof rather than trying to extend gretl's spreadsheet
capabilities: gretl will never be very good as a spreadsheet,
compared to the programs that specialize in that.
Allin.