Re: [Gretl-users] data sets on mac
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Summers, Peter wrote:
I have several mac-using students who are having difficulty
installing
the textbook data sets (Stock-Watson, specifically). The self-installing
(*.exe) files don’t seem to work for them. Being mac-illiterate myself,
I’m not sure what to tell them. Any thoughts?
I'm no mac expert, but as far as I know OSX should handle tar.gz files
just fine. Mac users can download the gzipped tarball from the usual
place (http://gretl.sourceforge.net/gretl_data.html) and unpack them
following the instructions on the same page.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti