Re: [Gretl-devel] SPSS file
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Cottrell, Allin <cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Sven Schreiber
<svetosch(a)gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here's an (alleged) SPSS file downloaded from Eurostat which won't be
> imported into gretl (TIME field has invalid length or somesuch is the
> error).
>
> I have no idea whether that's a gretl import bug or the file is not
> according to spec. Maybe somebody out there has SPSS and can tell.
It may be the big endianness of the file that's a problem (or possibly the
fact that it was created using pspp rather than SPSS). I'll see what I can
find out.
There was a bug in the facility for handling big-endian SPSS files on
little-endian systems. That's now fixed in CVS. However, this file is quite
strange and arguably mal-formed. I opened it in pspp (I don't have
SPSS) and it looked just as strange there as in gretl.
Allin