On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Leon Unger wrote: > In terms of importing data via ODBC I've got another general question > myself: > obs-format combinded with string (%s) does not work, or to be > precise, GRETL > crashes immediately! Could someone provide an example for such > string indices? The conversion "%s" in an obs-format string requires that the corresponding variable from the database is of string type. For example: string Q = "SELECT country,year,y FROM FooBase" data y obs-format="%s:%d" query=Q --odbc This should work if the "country" variable contains string country-codes such as "FRA", "GER", etc., and the year variable contains years as integers: GER:1990 123.5 GER:1991 127.6 This assumes that the pre-existing gretl dataset has observation strings on the pattern shown above. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users