[Gretl-users] Re: Problem running "foreign language=R --send-data" in Ubuntu
On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM Roland Clarke <rolandclarke97(a)icloud.com> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I am having problems running a simple Gretl script to retrieve variables
from the FRED database. The script works perfectly when I run it on a
Mac, but when I run it on my Ubuntu 24.04 it fails on the line:
foreign language=R --send-data
under Ubuntu it generates the following output:
gretl version 2023c
Current session: 2025-10-13 10:15
? foreign language=R --send-data
? print("before loading libraries)
? library(fredr)
? print("loaded fredr)
? library(eFRED)
? print("loaded Fred libraries")
? source("functions/data_management.R")
? print("loaded functions")
? Fd <- Fred_data(gretldata$SLIST)
? Fdata <- Fd[[1]]
? write.csv(Fdata, "temp/FRED_full_from_R.csv", row.names = FALSE)
? end foreign
/home/roland/.gretl/R.msg: No such file or directory
Roland, can you tell us, where is "functions/data_management.R" coming
from, and what's the content of gretldata$SLIST? As things stand we're
not in a position to replicate this issue. I'd also note, there are
some unclosed quotes above that would presumably halt execution in R,
but maybe that's just a matter of transcription.
Allin Cottrell