hi, i'm new to gretl and running into a problem importing a xls-spreadsheet: the spreadsheet has a column "sex" with values "m" or "f" and gretl throws an error telling me that she expected numerical data for this column, but found a string (which is correct, because I have values of "m" and "f". how to import this into gretl? the same error occurs when using openoffice calc. gretl 1.8.7 running on ubuntu 10.10 Marco _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel

do I have to recode all my non-numeric columns like that? can't gretl handle non-numeric values? Marco Am 21.12.2010 18:56, schrieb Sven Schreiber: > Hi, > you have to give the girl what she wants... so just replace m with 0 and > f with 1 in your spreadsheet and start over. > > cheers, > sven > > Am 21.12.2010 12:50, schrieb Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V.: >> hi, >> >> i'm new to gretl and running into a problem importing a xls-spreadsheet: >> the spreadsheet has a column "sex" with values "m" or "f" and gretl >> throws an error telling me that she expected numerical data for this >> column, but found a string (which is correct, because I have values of >> "m" and "f". how to import this into gretl? >> >> the same error occurs when using openoffice calc. >> >> gretl 1.8.7 running on ubuntu 10.10 >> >> Marco >> _______________________________________________ >> Gretl-devel mailing list >> Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu >> http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel >> _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel