Re: [Gretl-devel] Built-in spreadsheet improvement
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Henrique Andrade wrote:
Em 21 de fevereiro de 2010/2/21 Allin <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>
escreveu:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Henrique Andrade wrote:
>
> > I would like to suggest the improvement of the options
> > "--rowoffset=", and "coloffset=" in the GUI and CLI, in
order to
> > allow the selection of specific rows and columns. Let's suppose
> > we want to open only the first and third row of the table. How
> > could you do that using the options"--rowoffset=", and
> > "coloffset="?
>
> Not possible via --rowoffset plus --coloffset, and not
> possible via the GUI either. But personally I don't think this
> is worthwhile. It is difficult enough to parse spreadsheet
> files without adding this extra complexity.
Ok, like I said, it was just a suggestion.
> "In principle", gretl could save you a few clicks by offering
> to import specific rows and/or columns, but the saving of a
> few clicks would come at the cost of very substantial coding
> effort.
Sorry, but I didn't know this was a difficult task. I know you'd
spent a lot of time working in improvements that are really
important to Gretl. Thanks a lot for this!
No problem, but as illustration of what I find more interesting,
I'm currently adding the facility to estimate duration/survival
models in gretl.
> Offer me lots of money and I _might_ be interested, otherwise
I'm
> afraid not ;-)
If one day I win the lottery (called "Mega Sena" here in Brazil) I
promisse I will help the creation of the Gretl Foundation! :D
Thanks, and good luck!
Allin