On Sat, 17 May 2014, oleg_komashko@ukr.net wrote:

> To reproduce: open /gretl/POE4data/nls_panel.gdt
>
> start (interactive) R session in R: 
>> head(gretldata)
> hours, age,  exper are lost
> renamed variables schmours=hours schmage=age schmexper=exper
>
> are read ok. Seems, there must be variables' counter and a warning 
> message for such situations. The predetermined names sets are different 
> in different packages. So, one doesn't know beforehand. Should be a 
> warning.

Totally weird. All the series in that data file show correctly here 
(current gretl CVS, R 3.1.0):

current data loaded as data frame "gretldata"
> head(gretldata)
[partial output, "exper" is also present]
   id year    lwage hours age educ
1  1   82 1.808289    38  30   12
2  1   83 1.863417    38  31   12
3  1   85 1.789367    38  33   12
4  1   87 1.846530    40  35   12
5  1   88 1.856449    40  37   12
6  2   82 1.280933    48  36   17

Allin Cottrell