On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Sven Schreiber wrote: > could you explain what you mean by "updating"? When I choose > Data->Databse->on server I get a list of databases that includes > "fedstl", which I would think has the Fred data.
I presume Samrat means, how to update the fedstl series beyond what happens to be the latest available via the gretl server. This is possible, but a little tricky. There is an updater program in the "utils" subdirectory of the gretl source package. To work with this you need a C compiler, to build the program, and you also need to get an "API key" from the St Louis fed: http://api.stlouisfed.org/api_key.html The alternatie to rebuilding the full database is just to visit the FRED system online ( http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ ) and download the specific series you need. You can get these as CSV (and also Excel format?). Allin Cottrell
