[Gretl-users] Repeatable crash on frequency distribution on a string-valued data series from GUI

Hi Jack, Attached is a small sample dataset with 3 string-valued variables, CITY, = hprice, & inc that crashes on CITY, hprice, but not on inc. Fred > > On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, Fred Engst wrote: > >> Hi Allin, >> Another repeatable crash today. This is from a dataset that my student = > gave me. >> After looking into the issue, I found that the problematic data series = > was actually read as a string-valued >> series that looked like numbers. >> Once I corrected this data issue, the frequency plot was fine. >> However, it still crashes on any string-valued data series. >> Attached is the crash report. > > This is weird. Normally, there is no problem with "freq" on string-valued= > =20 > variables. Example: > > <hansl> > open grunfeld.gdt > freq ticker --plot=3Ddisplay > </hansl> > > There must be something funny in your student's dataset. Would you mind=20 > sending it over? Thanks. --Apple-Mail=_F6A326C4-1187-46BA-BB14-9E5641F06218-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 08:55:07 -0500 (EST) From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; Subject: [Gretl-users] Re: Repeatable crash on frequency distribution on a string-valued data series from GUI To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it&gt; Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.3.2012240850230.355041(a)myrtle.attlocal.net&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, Fred Engst wrote: > Another repeatable crash today. This is from a dataset that my > student gave me. > > After looking into the issue, I found that the problematic data > series was actually read as a string-valued series that looked > like numbers. > > Once I corrected this data issue, the frequency plot was fine. > However, it still crashes on any string-valued data series. > Attached is the crash report. Thanks, Fred. That's now fixed in git, snapshots to follow. Could you please send me the xlsx file that was imported to create the test3.gdt file that you posted? Besides the crashing problem itself there's something funny happening on importing those data: we end up with one string value consisting of 34 spaces, for hprice. Allin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:20:18 +0100 (CET) From: "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" <p002264(a)staff.univpm.it&gt; Subject: [Gretl-users] Re: Repeatable crash on frequency distribution on a string-valued data series from GUI To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it&gt; Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2012241618280.2199@newvaio> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323329-1436782324-1608823222=:2199" --8323329-1436782324-1608823222=:2199 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, Fred Engst wrote: > >> Another repeatable crash today. This is from a dataset that my student= gave=20 >> me. >> =20 >> After looking into the issue, I found that the problematic data series= was=20 >> actually read as a string-valued series that looked like numbers. >> =20 >> Once I corrected this data issue, the frequency plot was fine. >> However, it still crashes on any string-valued data series. >> Attached is the crash report. > > Thanks, Fred. That's now fixed in git, snapshots to follow. > > Could you please send me the xlsx file that was imported to create the=20 > test3.gdt file that you posted? Besides the crashing problem itself the= re's=20 > something funny happening on importing those data: we end up with one s= tring=20 > value consisting of 34 spaces, for hprice. I just pushed another commit to git to fix a bug exposed by the data file= =20 that Fred sent. You'd get a segfault if you tried to apply the atof()=20 function to the hprice series. Now this is fixed. Thanks, Fred! ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Universit=E0 Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Universit=E0 di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti ------------------------------------------------------- --8323329-1436782324-1608823222=:2199-- ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/ ------------------------------ End of Gretl-users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 30 ********************************************