Re: [Gretl-users] Bug with saved matrices between linux and windows
On Tue, 27 May 2014, Giuseppe Vittucci wrote:
I am running gretl 1.9.90 on Linux Mint Debian.
I found an issue in reading session files in Windows created in Linux:
matrices disappear when they have nan values...
To replicate the bug, try the following:
- start gretl in Linux and run:
nulldata 100
set skip_missing off
series a = 1
a[1] = NA
matrix A = { dataset }
save the file as a session (temp.gretl).
The matrix A contains a nan value.
No problem if you open the session file in Linux, but if you open the
file in Windows the session does not contain the matrix A...
OK, that's because of Microsoft's strange string representation of NaN;
apparently Windows can't make sense of "nan". We'll get that fixed as
soon
as we figure out the best approach for portability.
Allin Cottrell