Hi,
I'm not sure if this is supposed to work or not, but in light of the
stress-testing of the release candidate I report the following:
Gretl failed to recognize the dates in a csv file with monthly data in
the format 'yyyy-mm' (from the US Fed), where the first observation is
in April 1953; here's an excerpt of gretl's output:
erster Zeilenkopf "1953-04", letzter Kopf "2008-12"
versuche Zeilenbezeichner als Daten zu parsen...
1953: wahrscheinlich ein Jahr... Behandlung als undatierte Daten
So gretl correctly finds the date labels, but then it still treats the
data as undated. (Of course it's easy to fix, so at most a minor bug.)
BTW, just a practical hint about a loosely related issue: quarterly data
files from the US BLS often have additional lines with the annual
aggregates which complicates the import -- I think we even discussed
this here on this list. Now I found out that the jEdit editor has the
cool feature of "cut lines containing..." so with just two clicks you
can get rid of those 'annual' lines. Normally I don't like Java programs
that much, but jEdit also has rectangular selection, so I like it better
every time!
cheers,
sven