3:19 p.m.
Hi,
first of all: I think Gretl is great. Just what I had looking for my students and myself.
Clean, fast, easy, powerful but - most of all - a nice user interface. That's what R
is missing. That said:
I am new to this list so I am not sure if this is the right place to report bugs. But
since I didn't find any other place to do so, I will just start:
The menu item for compacting series does not work correctly. Although the option
"last" is specified in the attributes, another method to compact is used. In
contrast, if you use the command line interface, everything works fine.
If you want to try out yourself, just try to compact these two files via the menu to a
frequency of 1 year. A lot of data gets lost at the beginning of the series.
Kind regards and thank you for your help
Thorsten
4:10 p.m.
Am 29.01.2015 um 21:19 schrieb Wingenroth, Thorsten:
Hi,
I am new to this list so I am not sure if this is the right place to
report bugs. But since I didn’t find any other place to do so, I will
just start:
Hello, this is certainly the right place to report bugs.
The menu item for compacting series does not work correctly. Although
the option “last” is specified in the attributes, another method to
compact is used. In contrast, if you use the command line interface,
everything works fine.
Can you describe more precisely what you're expecting and what you're
getting instead? Also the version you're using. A quick check didn't
give me obvious rubbish. But if the GUI and CLI results vary that would
be a problem. (So BTW, what exactly are the commands you used?)
BTW, you're file has decimal separators (comma) as well as thousands
separators (dot). I would try to avoid that, it's quite difficult for a
program to figure out three different kinds of separators (decimal,
thousands, columns).
If you want to try out yourself, just try to compact these two files via
the menu to a frequency of 1 year. A lot of data gets lost at the
beginning of the series.
Well a lot of your series are only complete for the year 2014, so yes no
annualized values are being produced before and after. I guess it can be
argued that if the user chooses "end value" as the compaction method and
the end value is present, that this should not give a missing value.
(And analagously for starting value, obviously.)
But as I said before, if results differ between GUI and CLI, that smells
like a bug in any case.
thanks,
sven
4:38 p.m.
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Wingenroth, Thorsten wrote:
first of all: I think Gretl is great. Just what I had looking for
my students and myself. Clean, fast, easy, powerful but - most of
all - a nice user interface. That's what R is missing.
Thanks, glad you like it!
That said [...]
The menu item for compacting series does not work correctly.
Although the option "last" is specified in the attributes, another
method to compact is used. In contrast, if you use the command
line interface, everything works fine.
Thanks for the report. I see the problem, and it's specific to
running two compaction steps: daily to monthly then monthly to
annual. I've found the source of the problem and fixed it in CVS;
fixed snapshots will follow tomorrow.
If you want to try out yourself, just try to compact these two
files via the menu to a frequency of 1 year. A lot of data gets
lost at the beginning of the series.
One thing to note is that your DAX CSV file is not suitable for
importation to gretl as it stands. You can't include a thousands
separator in such a file. (When I experimented with it I had to open
it in a text editor and delete all instances of '.'.) All the
supposedly numerical values such as "10.666,43" (meaning, I take it,
10 thousand, six hundred and sixty six point four three) are read as
string variables since gretl can't make any numerical sense of such
constructions with two bits of punctuation.
Allin Cottrell
4:48 p.m.
Welcome to the best scientific community!
I have cleaned up your files, turning them into EN data. You can import
them in Gretl with no problems.
I can confirm the bug you found.
To produce "nice" values you should first compact from Daily to Weekly data
(with "last"), next from Weekly to Monthly, and finally from Monthly to
Annual.
Bye,
Hélio
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Wingenroth, Thorsten wrote:
first of all: I think Gretl is great. Just what I had looking for my
> students and myself. Clean, fast, easy, powerful but - most of all - a nice
> user interface. That's what R is missing.
>
Thanks, glad you like it!
That said [...]
>
> The menu item for compacting series does not work correctly. Although the
> option "last" is specified in the attributes, another method to compact is
> used. In contrast, if you use the command line interface, everything works
> fine.
>
Thanks for the report. I see the problem, and it's specific to running two
compaction steps: daily to monthly then monthly to annual. I've found the
source of the problem and fixed it in CVS; fixed snapshots will follow
tomorrow.
If you want to try out yourself, just try to compact these two files via
> the menu to a frequency of 1 year. A lot of data gets lost at the beginning
> of the series.
>
One thing to note is that your DAX CSV file is not suitable for
importation to gretl as it stands. You can't include a thousands separator
in such a file. (When I experimented with it I had to open it in a text
editor and delete all instances of '.'.) All the supposedly numerical
values such as "10.666,43" (meaning, I take it, 10 thousand, six hundred
and sixty six point four three) are read as string variables since gretl
can't make any numerical sense of such constructions with two bits of
punctuation.
Allin Cottrell
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