Re: [Gretl-users] saving R files

On Wed, 23 May 2012, Leandro Zipitria wrote: > I have atempted to save several databases used in gretl and then open them > on R, and have always problems to open it. I attach gretl file, and R file. > Does anyone have the same problem? Here is the R output (translated from > spanish) > > ] ERROR: magic number invalid restore file (the file may be corrupted) - no > data reloaded It looks as if you're trying to get R to read a data file as if it were a saved workspace. In R, you need to do something like mydata <- read.table("filename", header=TRUE) However, the example you gave exposed a bug in gretl's routine for writing R data. Your "agua2" file contains observation-marker strings, and gretl writes these into the R datafile. In itself that's not a problem, since R can handle "row.names". But... for R, row names have to be unique, and in agua2.gdt the names (which represent dates in a stacked time series) repeat, so R bombs out with "duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed" This is now fixed in CVS -- we check that the obs strings are unique before writing them into a R datafile -- and this fix will be in the gretl snapshot soon. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users