[Gretl-users] Re: Import data from ECDC for corona virus

But not for me, irritatingly (mine is up to date, and I can open .xlsx files through LibreOffice): gretl version 2020b-git Current session: 2020-03-22 09:38 ? string site = "https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/" Generated string site ? string fname = "COVID-19-geographic-distribution-worldwide-2020-03-21.xlsx" Generated string fname ? string URL = site ~ fname Generated string URL ? open @URL --quiet gretl_unzip: /home/clive/.gretl/COVID-19-geographic-distribution-worldwide-2020-03-21.xlsx: zip error: Zip file structure invalid Error executing script: halting In the end, I saved and renamed the file manually and opened it through -gretl- in the usual way. But it would be nice if the other way worked. C On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 at 23:35, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti < r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it&gt; wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, F.R.Costa wrote: > > > What's the best way to import this into Gretl? > > I guess this should work ok: > > <hansl> > string site = "https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/" > string fname = > "COVID-19-geographic-disbtribution-worldwide-2020-03-21.xlsx" > string URL = site ~ fname > setobs Countriesandterritories DateRep --panel-vars > </hansl> > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti > Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) > > Università Politecnica delle Marche > (formerly known as Università di Ancona) > > r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it > http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti > > -------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Clive Nicholas "My colleagues in the social sciences talk a great deal about methodology. I prefer to call it style." -- Freeman J. Dyson