[Gretl-users] Re: News on JMulTi-related data

Hi Sven, Thanks for your effort. One question: Is this dataset supposed to be available via the gretl server? I can't access it via the menu (File -> Open data -> Sample file -> Look on server). Thanks Artur Am 18.12.23 um 19:04 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > Hi everybody, > > some of you may remember the JMulTi Java- and Gauss-based software and > some related books (co-) authored by Helmut Lütkepohl. Thanks to Jack, > the example datasets used in those books and that existed in JMulTi > format are now directly available in gretl format. See under > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/files/datafiles/ and watch out > for the "HLBooks..." zip or targ.gz archives, which holds a number of > .gdt files. > > (We should probably also add a link to the wiki page...) > > Furthermore, it may be useful to know that the import of JMulTi style > datafiles does (temporarily) not work directly with the latest gretl > version 2023c. Here's a workaround: > > One can delete the header of a JMulTi file -- that is, the leading material: > |/* ... */|and |<...>| > and then it should be read OK as a "CSV" format file (but without > automatic recognition of the starting date). > > The recognition of JMulTi dat files has been restored in snapshots and > what will be the next gretl version (presumably 2024a). But again, if > it's just about the teaching and example files that came with the > book(s), you can just use the pre-converted versions given above. > > thanks > > sven