Re: [Gretl-devel] xls import fails - error message says expecting numerical data but found string

Hi, you have to give the girl what she wants... so just replace m with 0 and f with 1 in your spreadsheet and start over. cheers, sven Am 21.12.2010 12:50, schrieb Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V.: > hi, > > i'm new to gretl and running into a problem importing a xls-spreadsheet: > the spreadsheet has a column "sex" with values "m" or "f" and gretl > throws an error telling me that she expected numerical data for this > column, but found a string (which is correct, because I have values of > "m" and "f". how to import this into gretl? > > the same error occurs when using openoffice calc. > > gretl 1.8.7 running on ubuntu 10.10 > > Marco > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-devel mailing list > Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel >