Re: [Gretl-devel] 'join' with gdt files
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi,
I just used the 'join' command again after quite a while. Automatically
I tried to import from a native gretl (.gdt) file, and I got a strange
error, "not supported for this estimator" (in German).
Apart from this weird message (is it the same in English?),
Yes, though it's now changed in CVS. I'd set the error code as E_NOTIMP
(for "not implemented"), forgetting that E_NOTIMP had a rather too
specific message attached.
I remembered that join only works with .csv files, as duly mentioned
in
the docs. Then all worked nicely; however, from a little distance now I
must say that this feels a little "lame", gretl not being able to use
its own files!?
That could be implemented. It would take a while: while we can easily find
our way around in our own files, a lot of the code was initially tailored
to the CSV assumption. I think we took it for granted that the principal
real-world use of join would be with files from third-party sources.
Allin