Re: [Gretl-users] csv date parsing
Am 19.11.2008 17:56, Sven Schreiber schrieb:
Even after naming the first column 'obs', still it doesn't work! Could
it be that the problem is that my data is stored in reverse
chronological order (t=T at the top, t=1 at the bottom)?
replying to myself: this indeed seems to be the problem. I imported the
csv file into OpenOffice without problems, and there I could easily
change the sorting to chronological order (instead of reverse). Then I
exported the file to csv again, with the dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
That new csv file could be easily imported into gretl.
Bottom line: IMHO gretl's import mechanism should also allow reverse
chronological ordering, which at present apparently it doesn't. Or am I
missing something?
thanks,
sven