Am 06.04.2026 um 18:40 schrieb Ramki S:
Thanks a lot. I am surprised with this little issue. But when other
softwares are cleanly handling the quotes, why gretl is not doing it. I would prefer there
should be some option to ignores the quotes. Now I am getting the correct results.
Did you change the file on Dropbox in the meantime? I'm not seeing those
quotes when I download the csv file, everything is perfectly numeric and
fine. Anyway, in my subjective opinion gretl is quite good in the
import/export department. Of course, there's always room for
improvement, but last time I had to work with commercial econometrics
software, I was kind of surprised at the lack of supported file formats,
compared to gretl.
Followup:
I am finding it difficult to post anything like code or output here due to this forum
format. Is there any option to shift to stackoverflow so that it is really easy to post
code, data, output everything in neat format.
It's true that in a mailing list the formatting options are limited. It
usually works, though, if you use a fixed-width font for
copied-and-pasted tables and so on.
Quite some time ago there was a discussion about stackoverflow, but the
shift wasn't made, and while I was kind of in favor of it back in the
time, I certainly wouldn't try to move there now that it's dying due to
AI. (There have been lots of web comments about "nobody" asking or
answering questions there anymore.)
Having said that, we also use the issue tracker system on the
sourceforge page, which is more like an actual web forum instead of a
mailing list, and comes with some formatting options. See
https://sourceforge.net/p/gretl/feature-requests/ or
https://sourceforge.net/p/gretl/bugs/. Your case studies are actually
better suited for this mailing list (and so you chose the right outlet),
but if you feel you need better formatting, you can also post over there
instead. We read and follow those trackers as well.
thanks
sven