Re: [Gretl-users] exporting to excel

Thanks, I'll look into it, but I think it will be easier to just write the script to pull data from the csv and plop it onto a sheet in the excel spread sheet. Thanks, Chris On 5/11/07, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it&gt; wrote: > > On Fri, 11 May 2007, Chris wrote: > > > That's fine, I suppose it's just a couple more lines of VBA to import > the > > csv file;) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris > > > > On 5/11/07, Allin Cottrell < cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 11 May 2007, Chris wrote: > >> > >> > Is it possible to get gretl to put output into an excel > spreadsheet? > >> > >> Not unless somebody else wants to write an exporter. Gretl can > >> output CSV just fine, but doesn't export to closed binary formats. > > You may be already aware of this, but gnumeric (also available for Win32 > > if you need it) provides a command-line tool called ssconvert that will > take a csv file produced by gretl and turn it into a perfectly legit xls > file. > > You may either write a script that calls ssconvert, call ssconvert from > within gretl via "!" or, better still, rip the C code from gnumeric and > incorporate it into gretl if you really need this functionality badly. > > > Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti > Dipartimento di Economia > Università Politecnica delle Marche > > r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it > http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users >