[Gretl-users] Re: yahoo_get error
On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 3:18 PM Theodoros Panagiotidis <tpanag(a)uom.edu.gr> wrote:
It is weekly
OK, so it's a bug in yahoo_get. Either the conditionality for
referencing 'amth' should be ($pd == 4 || $pd ==12) -- not that the
data are not daily -- or else, if the weekly frequency is not
supported, that should be made explicit.
Allin
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2026, 22:02 Cottrell, Allin <cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM Theodoros Panagiotidis <tpanag(a)uom.edu.gr>
wrote:
>> >
>> > I am using the option from the menu
>>
>> Ah, then what's the frequency of your dataset? I see that in yahoo_get
>> 'amth' is a string that's defined if and only if the data are
>> quarterly or monthly. And then the usage of 'amth' in setting desc_s
>> is conditional on the dataset not being daily. So I guess what you're
>> seeing would result if your dataset is not quarterly, not monthly, and
>> not daily.
>>
>> Allin