I'll pick one of Sven's points for now... On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 12:54 PM Sven Schreiber <sven.schrei...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Why actually are the ECB's AWM datasets located in the sample datasets > collection instead of the databases? They're not textbook-style illustration > data. Or am I misunderstanding the rules that determine where a > dataset/database is to be found in gretl? Even after all these years I find > it quite confusing, actually.
* If a data collection contains series of different frequencies then (leaving aside the special case of MIDAS files) it must be packaged as a gretl database. * It may also be preferable (more parsimonious) to use the gretl database format if a collection contains series with substantially different observation ranges. In a regular gretl datafile all series must be of a common length (padded with NAs if need be). * There's a certain presumption in favour of a database for very large collections of series. That leaves some room for discretion. I guess we could go either way with the AWM files but they're quite compact so using regular datafile format seems OK. The supplied datafiles under the "gretl" heading are mostly not textbook-oriented. Allin -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users@gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-le...@gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/
