Re: [Gretl-users] Time series before 1700
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013, Cristián Arturo Ducoing Ruiz wrote:
I'm economic historian and I'm working with silver prices in
the spanish
empire. When I tried to import the data from excel, the minimun starting
point is 1700. Do you know how to resolve this problem?
The minimum starting year of 1700 is a limitation in the
graphical interface (dataset structure "wizard") that we
should probably relax. In the meantime, however, you can use
the "setobs" command to impose any starting year. E.g., for
annual data starting in 1630:
setobs 1 1630
Allin Cottrell