[Gretl-devel] Re: mread possible enhancement

This would be very nice of course, but in that case I would imagine the job would be less straightforward than it seems, because of the intrinsic differences between the eventual aims. When we read a csv file into a dataset, we need to have many more checks in place than when reading into a matrix. For example, we can just zap strings and substitute them win NAs; or the header, if present, can contain labels that wouldn'be allowed as indentifiers (eg empty). Or we could allow incoherent csv structures (like in the "malformed" example in my sample script). The reason why I brought this up in the first place is that I realised that a function like the one I coded in hansl would be very useful when translating code from Octave/Matlab; of course, in some cases you will want your script to operate on the same data as the matlab code, where reading from csv is customarily used in a much larger set of cases that reading data in. ------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------