Re: [Gretl-devel] open ASCI files
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote:
Dear all, For example I can't run
open http://www.principlesofeconometrics.com/poe4/data/dat/golf.dat
(this file as .gdt is supplied with Gretl as a data file for Hill
Griffiths Lim) But if download it and rename as golf.dat,
Do you mean, rename it as golf.txt?
gretl open it ok. May be, something like this open filename
--as-txt will be useful? It's only suggestion because I can't do
costs-benefits analysis: costs are C code, and at the benefits
side I do not know how many users will need it.
Benefits are small, I think. So far as gretl is concerned, ".dat" is
the suffix for JMulti data files. Renaming as .txt is not too
onerous.
Allin