[Gretl-devel] Re: New feature
On Sun, 26 May 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote:
Daniel might want to consider batch conversion of Excel or ODS
files to CSV using soffice or gnumeric. Then gretl's text
processing facilities could be brought to bear on data files
that contain descriptive labels as well as series names.
Yes. I've found the "ssconvert" utility from gnumeric very fast and
reliable.
Having said this, it would be nice to have a few more options to the open
command, such as the possibility of skipping some initial lines, or
designating a certain line as the one containing labels, and so on.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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