Re: [Gretl-devel] gretl 2015d crashes on opening attached stata file
Am 04.12.2015 um 16:57 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
With HEAD git here the file opens with no problems, although there is a
visualisation problem with variable 4 ("Bundesland") if you try opening
it (you get a blank window). If you try together with other ones, you
see it, but it's all misaligned.
However, I suspect this is related to some work Allin is doing on string
variables and should be a transient hiccup.
Now that you mention it, I also saw some misalignment there with 2015d,
so perhaps not so transient.
The important thing is that gretl doesn't crash here (Linux). Could you
see what happens with a recent snapshot?
Still crashes with the Nov 30th snapshot. This is Win 8.1 32bit. Can
other Windows users test? (let me repeat: this likely crashes your
gretl, save and close your data first)
Maybe it has something to do with a) string-valued series, b) having
hyphens and Umlauts in the values.
BTW, I noticed that I cannot import a series/column with those strings
from an xls file, gretl says "expected numerical data". This used to be
obvious, but now that gretl also does such series, perhaps it is an
oversight to not allow them in imports?
thanks,
sven