Re: [Gretl-users] descriptive labels
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Shaianne Osterreich wrote:
Thanks for your advice Allin and Henrique.
Allin - I've tried your suggestion. When the traditional file
is created it does create 2 files - dat and hdr. Then I have
saved a plain text file named mydata.lbl (in exactly the format
you suggested) in the same user folder with the newly created
ones. But, when I re-open mydata.dat it doesn't open with the
descriptive labels - it's just the variable names as before. I
think gretl isn't reading the text file. Do you have
suggestions?
Ah, I think the thing is that old-style data files like that are
not fully supported any more. It should work if you open the data
file from the command line, as in
gretl mydata.dat
or using the command-line program,
gretlcli mydata.dat
But there's no way, when using the GUI File menu, to indicate that
you want to open an old-style ESL data file (which is the format
we're talking about). I tested my suggestion, but I was operating
from the command line.
Allin Cottrell