[Gretl-devel] Re: no error feedback from GUI join dialog
On Tue, 1 Sep 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 01.09.2020 um 20:50 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Am 01.09.2020 um 15:45 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
>> Trying the same thing in the console just gives a "data error". This
was
>> a text file with a string-valued key column (countries) and semicolon as
>> the delimiter. When I changed the semicolons to commas, it works in the
>> console. I guess gretl's heuristics might see the semicolon as part of
>> the string value.
>
> Sven, could you post (offlist if you like) the file in question?
>
Hm, I cannot reproduce this anymore, so I guess something else was
happening as well.
What remains true, however, is that I cannot get the join GUI dialog to
work (the one that appears after choosing append - advanced/join).
Trying to imitate a working join command incarnation just yields no
reaction from gretl, and no joining is taking place. The context is an
opened geojson file in place and the data to be map-plotted resides in
the file to be joined; the matching is done via string-valued series.
Please send your files anyway.
You might try this: open founders.geoson from the geoplot examples
dir. Then do /File/Open data and choose founders.csv in "join" mode.
Select "pop" as the variable to import, string-valued "FID" as the
inner key and string-valued "code" as the outer key. This works fine
for me, does it work for you?
(The absence of an error message is a problem in itself, but first
let's see what is not working.)
Allin