Re: [Gretl-devel] open ASCI files
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote:
> Do you mean, rename it as golf.txt? exactly > So far as gretl
is concerned, ".dat" is
the suffix for JMulti data files. open http://www.jmulti.de/download/datasets/e1.dat
works ok In http://www.principlesofeconometrics.com/poe4/data/dat/golf.dat .dat is an
idiosyncratic extension for a text data file
If I understand it correctly, gretl tries to open golf.dat as JMulti
data file and fails, since it is a text file. May be, it will be useful
to have some text on renaming non-standard extensions before opening?
I mean, really.
It's ok to make users' lives easy, but up to a point. If someone, for some
reason, rename a Stata file to an XLS extension, do you suppose we should
try and correct for that?
-------------------------------------------------------
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
-------------------------------------------------------