Am 21.04.2025 um 07:28 schrieb Theodoros Panagiotidis:
 Dear All,
 The Global Macro Database is available here:
 
https://www.globalmacrodata.com/data.html
 It could be useful to have it available via the Gretl sample files. 
Yes, that's an interesting (panel) dataset. FWIW, I tried with the Stata 
dta fileformat (after providing my email address), which gave me a 12.5 
MB file. I could open this file in gretl without problems, then I just 
needed to tell gretl that it was a panel with "id" and "year" as the 
index variables, with annual time.(I also needed to enter the starting 
year 1086 manually in the data struture wizard - to be honest, that felt 
a little redundant, but well. Yes, you read right, the thing starts in 
the middle ages.) When I saved it in gretl's gdt standard format with 
default compression level 1, I got a 6.6 MB file in the end.
So it's perhaps a little too large to ship it directly with gretl. Also, 
it's updated quite often, so it's not obvious what's the best way to 
make it accessible, because some maintenance would be involved.
cheers
sven