Re: [Gretl-users] graph is crazy
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Not sure if I'm suggesting things that already exist, but for
these
complicated/non-standard files why not give the user a chance to specify
all these peculiarities (various separators, date format...), instead of
trying to teach gretl to figure it all out herself?
I *think* that stata has a feature like that. I guess we could have a gui
element in which you can choose
(a) decimal separator (default '.')
(b) thousands separator (default none)
(c) field separator (default ',')
(d) quote character default ('"')
(e) NA code
(f) presence/absence of variable names
(g) presence absence of a "date" field
(h) rule to treat multiple separators
when importing from text files. That would probably solve most issues. The
one that gnumeric has is incredibly good, the best one I've ever seen in a
spreadsheet. Perhaps we could rip it off theirs to some extent.
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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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