On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, cociuba mihai wrote: I have no idea. I imported your dataset by using your script and everything is working quite nicely here. Can you reproduce the issue with a smaller dataset (fewer rows/columns)? ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------

I also failed with the last script Instead, this is working: string line scalar i = 1 loop while getline(D, line)      sprintf s "%d", i     setinfo @s --description="@line"     i++ endloop The first situation seems to be system dependent On Ubuntu 15.10 script go ok. GUI crushes On XP it works OK with GUI with a single variable, when I selected more than one, the menu item became inactive Oleh 5 січня 2016, 13:01:04, від "cociuba mihai" < cociuba(a)gmail.com >: "Can you reproduce the issue with a smaller dataset (fewer rows/columns)?" I've tried with a smaller dataset and everything seems to be ok. It's weird that the summary command in hansl is working perfectly on the big data while the GUI force close. Best, Mihai  On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:31 AM, cociuba mihai < cociuba(a)gmail.com > wrote: Hello, I've attached the dataset, the script that I use in order to import the data and also the log, Gretl is build from sources (git, date of build 29.12.2015) and running on a Ubuntu 14.04. Steps to reproduce the error: - import the dataset, run  ####### <hansl> clear set  skip_missing off open  "bazaextinsabankscopeFINAL.xls" --sheet=1 --coloffset=5 --quiet matrix M={dataset} #print M summary   # hello gretl, this is a panel! unde N este periodicitatea scalar C=cols(M) scalar R=rows(M) scalar N=R/9 print  C R N setobs  N 1.1 --stacked-cross-section series year = time + 2004 summary #no error# < end hansl> ########### But when using the Summary option from the GUI menu gretl exits with the error "core dumped" The same dataset in R is working without any error (tested only the same summary command). Also when trying to run the script from  http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2014-January/009553.html in order to set the description to the variables I receive the following error: ######### ? string line ? scalar i = 1 Generated scalar i = 1 ? loop while getline(D, line) -q > setinfo i --description="@line" > i++ > endloop Command has insufficient arguments >> setinfo i --description="@line" ########## Any ideas of what seems to be problem? Mihai  _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users

nulldata 2 set seed 147 loop i=1..3     x$i = normal(0,1) endloop #works: setinfo 2 --description="bla bla bla" #fails: scalar i = 3 setinfo i --description="description" #works: scalar i = 4 sprintf s "%d", i setinfo @s --description="description" Oleh 5 січня 2016, 13:14:40, від "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" < r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it >: On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, cociuba mihai wrote: Running your script from a copy of gretl invoked from the shell shows the following output on stderr: <stderr> Excel 97 + Got BIFF_1904: value 0 Found 1 sheet 0: 'Sheet1' at offset 15922 Reading file... CODEPAGE: got 1200 reading worksheet at 15922 rows=2053, total cols=235, data cols=235 check for label strings in first imported column: not found newset->v = 231, newset->n = 2052 'TotalCustomerDepositsmilEUR' duplicated variable name 'DepositsfromBanksmilEUR' duplicated variable name 'DerivativesmilEUR' duplicated variable name 'TradingLiabilitiesmilEUR' duplicated variable name 'PrefSharesandHybridCapital' duplicated variable name 'LessReservesforImpairedLoa' duplicated variable name 'GrossLoansmilEUR' duplicated variable name 'LoansandAdvancestoBanksmil' duplicated variable name 'OtherSecuritiesmilEUR' duplicated variable name 'OtherEarningAssetsmilEUR' duplicated variable name 'TotalEarningAssetsmilEUR' duplicated variable name 'FixedAssetsmilEUR' duplicated variable name 'TotalAssetsmilEUR' duplicated variable name 'EquityTotalAssets' duplicated variable name 'DepositsShorttermfundingm' duplicated variable name 'EquitymilEUR' duplicated variable name 'NetIncomemilEUR' duplicated variable name 'TotalCapitalRatio' duplicated variable name 'NetInterestMargin' duplicated variable name 'LiquidAssetsDepSTFundin' duplicated variable name 'bigstr' duplicated variable name 'LoansAdvancestoCustomers' duplicated variable name 'PreimpairmentOpProfitAve' duplicated variable name 'FitchComprehensiveIncomeAv' duplicated variable name </stderr> What happens if you simplify/streamline/sanitize the column names in your xls file? ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, cociuba mihai wrote: [...] The right-click "Summary" menu item was inducing a crash when the selected series had a name of maximum length (31 bytes). That's now fixed in git and snapshots. Allin Cottrell

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, cociuba mihai wrote: Ah, the example you cite dates from January 2014, and since then we have made substantial changes to the gretl command interpreter. You're right, the particular phrasing of that loop no longer works. Arguably, it was only by a strange hack that it worked in the first place. The argument to "setinfo" should be the name or ID number of a series; at the time of writing that script, the scalar variable named "i" was being read as containing the ID number of a series -- that's what I'm describing as a strange hack (since in general in gretl commands you cannot give the name of a scalar where the name of a series is required). Anyway, here's a version that will work with current gretl: <hansl> open prod.txt string D = readfile("pnames.txt") string line loop i=1..$nvars-1 -q getline(D, line) setinfo $i --description="@line" endloop labels </hansl> Note that here we're using "$i" (string substitution) to get the name of the series into the "setinfo" command. Here's another variant of the loop that will work (treating the argument to "setinfo" as a list with a single member): <hansl> loop i=1..$nvars-1 -q getline(D, line) list Li = i setinfo Li --description="@line" endloop </hansl> Allin Cottrell