Hi, I have a csv file with daily data, where each calendar day is a row, but it's actually 5-days-a-week data, i.e. weekend days do not contain data.
First I have a problem with the import, gretl only imports it as undated because it says about the date labels: " erster Zeilenkopf "99-01-04", letzter Kopf "2014-05-19" Behandlung als undatierte Daten " (=treating it as undated), but the reason given is not true, because the first date string is actually: "1999-01-04" so there seems to be some problem with the date parsing. Ok, I can work around that, defining it manually as 7-days-daily data with the right starting date. Then I have the interface issue that at the bottom it only says "daily" (in German), but I think it is important here to show the distinction between 5- or 6- or 7-days-daily. Next I would like to convert the workfile from 7-days-daily to 5-days-daily, i.e. remove the empty (=missings) weekends obs, but this doesn't seem to be easy to do. (Note that removing all missing obs is not equivalent, because that also eliminates other holidays, which is another topic. Also I know I could use 'join' together with the source csv file to do that, but I think it should be easier than that, no?) When I try to work around that by removing all missing obs (including the holidays) within the 7-days-daily workfile, I run into the old problem that gretl then starts treating it as undated and the date information is lost. Note that I cannot then manually set it to 5-days-daily because of the missing holidays which gretl doesn't know about, i.e. the imposed dating produces errors, and this accumulates over time. The first thing mentioned is a bug, but any ideas about the other stuff? Thanks, sven
