Re: [Gretl-users] open database --www option
On Sun, 12 Nov 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 12.11.2017 um 10:57 schrieb Ioannis A. Venetis:
> open fedstl --www
> returns a message in a new window: Error attempting to open file
Hi Ioannis,
I can confirm that, and sorry, no advice.
Furthermore, I see that one the one hand there's:
'File/Databases/on Database server' --fuzzy retranslation from German,
sorry-- with fedstl for example, but there's also:
'File/Open data/Example data/<button:>Look on Server' with wooldridge for
example.
Even as a very-long-time gretl user it's not clear to me why there are these
two different repositories and different ways to access them.
The example data files are self-contained datasets: "open" one and
its entire content is dumped into gretl's workspace, replacing
anything that's already there.
A gretl "database" is (generally) a large collection of series of
various frequencies: "open" one and nothing happens except that it
becomes accessible via the "data" command. Generally one constructs
a working dataset by pulling selected series from one or more
databases (which will require compaction or interpolation if the
frequencies of the selected series differ).
Different formats, different means of access, different things
altogether.
Allin