Re: [Gretl-users] importing timeseries from csv into gretl
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Charles Vereker wrote:
Updated, but same behaviour. I uninstalled the older version before I
installed this newer version 1.9.12cvs build date 2013-09-14
The file is as it looks in notepad (no tricks or anything hidden!)! (and
with colons the same)
date,value
2013:01,3.145
2013:02,6.290
I am in the UK if it is to do with my language settings.
It's unlikely to be anything to do with language settings. Could you post
the data file as an attachment? (If it's big, please send it to me
offlist.)
You mentioned that gretl is saying
first field: 'idate'
line: idate,value
when reading the first line of your file. I don't see how gretl could
"imagine" an 'i' in front of the string "date"; certainly
I've never seen
anything like that happen. And if I copy the datafile lines out of your
email and save that as somefile.csv, gretl reads the data as monthly OK.
So I suspect there's something in the file that notepad is not showing.
Though of course it could be some (very obscure!) gretl bug.
Allin Cottrell