[Gretl-users] Re: Excel 2003 files
Occasionally, I have come across CERTAIN Excel files that are formatted
properly for read into Gretl BUT have weird variable names (in the first
row). On such instances, as I recall, Gretl gives a somewhat cryptic
message about a character in a variable name (or the like).
I remember that I was annoyed that it did not SPECIFICALLY give
information on the offending variable, so I had to search all the
columns manually.
Other than these rather vague memories, I am afraid I cannot be more
specific. Neither do I possess such a file any longer.
John Paravantis
University of Piraeus
Greece
gretl-users-request(a)lists.wfu.edu wrote:
Today's Topics:
1. Excel 2003 files (Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti)
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:37:17 +0100 (CET)
From: "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it>
Subject: [Gretl-users] Excel 2003 files
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Dear all,
what follows is a summary of a recent exchange on the developers' list:
rumour has it that sometimes gretl can't open files created by excel 2003
properly. I don't have excel myself, but I ran some experiments using a
friend's computer and I was unable to generate realistic test cases in xls
format that gretl couldn't open. After my request, Sven tried too, but
with the same result. Allin then suggested that maybe the rumour
originated from files in the 2003 XML office format, which we know we
can't read presently.
So, as per Sven's suggestion, this is a request for cooperation: has any
of you come across an xls file created by excel 2003 which gretl couldn't
open? If so, could you provide us with it so that we try to figure out
what the problem is?
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti
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