Re: [Gretl-devel] Duplicate variable name in workfile
Am 31.12.2013 18:01, schrieb Sven Schreiber:
Hi,
I stumbled across a very strange thing, namely ending up with two
variables with the same name "nordwest" in a panel workfile. I'm
attaching a stripped-down version in the hope that the effect is still
visible when the file gets to you.
The source was a Stata file, but I just re-imported to check, and only
one "nordwest" appears right after the import. So it must have been
something after that, within gretl. BTW, the content of the variables
were not identical, which is of course even worse.
This is with the 32bit gretl 1.9.14 on Win7.
Thanks,
sven
Further information on this: in the original imported file, the variable
with the next ID number after "nordwest" was called "südwest" (with
u-umlaut) which was obviously not imported correctly, there was some
strange sign instead of the umlaut. Possibly this got interpreted by
gretl as something weird, which caused the mess-up.
cheers,
sven