Re: [Gretl-users] importing panel data from excel

Dear Allin, because I have over 60 banks in different sheets I tried to construct a loop with the open function (before I found that it can't be used in a loop construction) nevertheless while tweaking this script gretl crashed several times. Maybe it's my poor scripting skill or perhaps a bug, anyway I thought you should see it. Attached script file and terminal output. Mihai On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, cociuba mihai wrote: Your data are sideways on, and need transposing. This is better done by script. <hansl> open simulation.xls --sheet=1 --rowoffset=2 --preserve # grab the transpose of the data as a matrix M = {dataset}' # and record the length of the time dimension scalar T = rows(M) open simulation.xls --sheet=2 --rowoffset=2 --preserve # stick on row-wise the transpose of the next data M |= {dataset}' open simulation.xls --sheet=3 --rowoffset=2 --preserve # stick on some more data M |= {dataset}' scalar NT = rows(M) # create a suitably sized dataset nulldata NT --preserve # pull out the columns of M as series series v1 = M[,1] series v2 = M[,2] delete index # hello gretl, this is a panel! setobs T 1.1 --stacked-time-series series year = time + 2004 # take a look print --byobs </hansl> Allin Cottrell