Hi Samrat, which error message do you exactly obtain? Sometimes there is a problem with the writing permission for the respective folder where gretl stores the data files.
Best, Artur Am 02.12.2010 06:59, schrieb Samrat Sanyal: > Dear all, > > Thanks for the help.The point is, the latest FRED data available via > the gretl server shows status 'not up to date', and any attempt to > update it by right clicking the series and choosing 'install' is met > with failure.And if I try to update the data series by downloading > FRED data in csv format by visiting the site itself, how do I > incorporate the changes in the existing server database? I already > tried the API key route, but as I am not at all conversant with C > programming and compilation of programs, I did not succeed.Any other > way will be very welcome. > > Thanks and Regards > Samrat Sanyal > > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu > <mailto:cottrell(a)wfu.edu>> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu <mailto:Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu> > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users > > > > > -- > Thanks and Regards, > Samrat Sanyal > > > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users
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Hi Samrat, which error message do you exactly obtain? Sometimes there is a problem with the writing permission for the respective folder where gretl stores the data files. Best, Artur Am 02.12.2010 06:59, schrieb Samrat Sanyal: Dear all, |
