Re: [Gretl-devel] redefining "NA"
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, Allin Cottrell wrote:
There's a potential compatibility issue with the gdtb binary data file
format. Backward compatibility will be preserved: there's code in place to
ensure that "new gretl" will handle old gdtb files OK (converting missing
values from DBL_MAX to NaN on reading). But "forward compatibility" is likely
to be at least partially broken. That is, gdtb files written by "new gretl"
(and containing NAs) will not be handled correctly by "old gretl". Two
Stata has a "saveold" command. As long as _new_ versions of gretl can
save in the "old" format, we should be ok. How about
store --oldbinary
?
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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