Re: [Gretl-devel] Time series data with gaps and plots

Hi Antonios, The file I sent imports just fine. Maybe is the version of Gretl you have (and on a remote chance the fact that it is Windows). Please, Allin confirm that the file I've sent would import OK. (Note to self: This is a good example to have in automated tests!) *My Favorite Open Source Projects awsome-lists <https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome> gretl <http://gretl.sourceforge.net/> meld <http://meldmerge.org/> robotframework <http://robotframework.org/> wxPython <https://wxpython.org/>*( *sponsored/patrocinado*) Recomendo servidores e alojamento Web em: http://www.proalojamento.com/clientes/aff.php?aff=258 On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2017, Sangvinatsos, Antonios wrote: > > The test data you provided below worked fine. Gretl did not ask me to >> give it a time series of panel interpretation and immediately understood it >> is a time series. >> > > OK, that's good. > > I suspected that I perhaps have to change the name of my date variable >> from ASOF_DATE to DATE. >> > > There's a short list of column labels that gretl takes to mean that the > first column is an observation label or date, and not regular data. This > includes "obs", "observation", "date" (in lower or upper case) or an empty > cell. See Chapter 4, "Data Files", in the Gretl User's Guide. > > When I do this the program understands the first variable as a row label >> variable (improvement) but it does not understand it as a date >> > [...] > > gretl says: > > line: DATE,MKT >> >> scanning for row labels and data... >> >> first row label "10/1/2007", last label "9/25/2017" >> > > There's the problem: the format here is not consistently MM/DD/YYYY: days > and months should be zero-padded, as in "09" or "01". One test that gretl > applies for consistent date strings is that they should all be of the same > length, and that won't be the case without zero-padding. > > However, the requirement of exact consistency is now relaxed in gretl > git; we'll try to handle a bit of sloppiness, allowing the length of the > date strings to differ by one character. We could try relaxing this a > little further. > > Allin > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-devel mailing list > Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel >