Thanks Artur, could you share the script you used to convert from dta to gdt?
Best El vie, 25 abr 2025 a las 17:21, Sven Schreiber (< sven.schrei...@fu-berlin.de>) escribió: > Am 21.04.2025 um 07:28 schrieb Theodoros Panagiotidis: > > Dear All, > > The Global Macro Database is available here: > > https://www.globalmacrodata.com/data.html > > It could be useful to have it available via the Gretl sample files. > > Yes, that's an interesting (panel) dataset. FWIW, I tried with the Stata > dta file format (after providing my email address), which gave me a 12.5 > MB file. I could open this file in gretl without problems, then I just > needed to tell gretl that it was a panel with "id" and "year" as the index > variables, with annual time. (I also needed to enter the starting year > 1086 manually in the data struture wizard - to be honest, that felt a > little redundant, but well. Yes, you read right, the thing starts in the > middle ages.) When I saved it in gretl's gdt standard format with default > compression level 1, I got a 6.6 MB file in the end. > > So it's perhaps a little too large to ship it directly with gretl. Also, > it's updated quite often, so it's not obvious what's the best way to make > it accessible, because some maintenance would be involved. > > cheers > > sven > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Atte. Cristián Arturo Ducoing Ruiz
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