On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Alan G Isaac wrote: > > On 9/24/2009 11:35 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > And in fact I'm not so sure > > that the suggested approach (checking and revising the CSV file in > > a text editor before loading it into gretl) is inefficient; it may > > well be optimal. This is a serious point. > > > > I take it seriously. I always look at my CSV files. > Cleaning them up with Vim is generally trivial. > > But there are conflicting goals here. Do you realize that most > undergrads these days do not even know what a text editor is?
Yes, indeed I do :-( I know you can't teach students everything at once. My approach is to give them cleaned-up data at first, when they're just trying to get familiar with econometric ideas, then later to reveal some of the issues involved in the clean-up. Allin
