Re: [Gretl-users] Package getQuandl

Dear gretl-users, I am the author of the getQuandl.gfn package. Sorry for the late response. And, of course, the under-documented. I will get it updated if I can solve the current problem. This package was developed and tested under my gretl 1.9.12 under my old Ubuntu 10.04. It seems not working for 1.10.90 (cvs, build date 2015-06-22). I just tested it again. Under my gretl 1.9.12, the following hansl was working fine. <hansl> include getQuandl.gfn nulldata 50 setobs 7 2012-01-03 include getQuandl.gfn # get exchange rates for USD and EURO from FRED xlist = getQuandl("DEXUSEU", "2012-01-03", "2012-01-31", 1, 4, null, 0, null, null) </hansl> But if this hansl runs under gretl 1.10.90, it turns out not working. After some debugging. I am not sure if anyone knows that "cURL" changes as I could recall. (Allin, maybe you can help me...) Since in gretl 1.9.12, the following commands still works: URL="http://www.quandl.com/api/v1/datasets/FRED/DEXUSEU.csv" s=readfile(URL) In 1.10.90 (cvs, build date 2015-06-22), however, the above commands gets an error: cURL error 1 (Unsupported protocol) It would seem that the current cURL do not support "_" characters but I am not sure so far because the above URL string does not contain any underscore "_" characters. Thanks for your help and interests in getQuandl and sorry for the inconvenience. Yi-Nung Yang 2015-09-01 3:38 GMT+08:00 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt;: