[Gretl-users] Re: cross-sectional panel data

Hi, I think this is a simple question but I am new to Gretl and keep trying things without success I have data with variables and years as columns, and my rows are companies, so my data variables look like Company name,ROE_year 1, ROE_year 2, ROE_year 3, ROE_year 4, Var2_year 1, Var2_year 2, Var2_year 3, Var2_year 4, Var3_year 1, Var3_year 2, Var3_year 3, Var3_year 4, Etc. I thought I could read this as crossectional panel data, but it doesn't work. I know I can read in stacked time series, but the data doesn't come in that format and involves a lot of manual changing. My question is therefore can I do something with this data that is straightforward? I will need to teach it to students, so I need to make it as easy as possible. Thank you for any help you can give me Alison