Re: [Gretl-devel] Issue reading in date variable

Am 04.02.19 um 13:24 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > Am 04.02.2019 um 12:55 schrieb Artur T.: >> Dear all, >> >> I've got two example dataset where time-units are decoded as YYYY-MM-DD. >> >> I am just puzzled that in case the time-variables is named "z" everything >> works fine (see data1.csv). >> >> However, once the column name is "DATE" (see data2.csv), I obtain the >> following error as variable "DATE" is no part of the dataset -- at least >> it doesn't appear in main window. > > I think that's because the special words "obs" and "date" (and possibly > others I'm forgetting right now) signal a datestamp to gretl. And that is > by definition not a variable to be imported, but meta information in a > sense. That's why it only works with "z" instead. True, I remember that some terms are reserved. > However, I agree that there's a gap here: I guess if it were a pure time > series it would work fine. But since it's a panel and the dates are > repeated, gretl seems to give up and just imports as-is (undated). But in > this situation, we'd like to get the "DATE" column as well, for further use > in 'setobs' as you showed.