[Gretl-users] mwrite/mread round-trip bug

2019-12-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
Here's a follow up to Stefano's comments on mread() and mwrite(), for which, thanks! Executive summary: round-tripping (writing a matrix to file using mwrite then reading it back via mread) works correctly if you use any of the "standard" filename extensions: ".mat" for a plain file, ".gz" for gzi

[Gretl-users] mwrite & mread

2019-12-19 Thread Stefano
just updated to current snapshot so I will never know if this would have made a difference - btw, the current documentation does not mention this... thanks and happy new year! Stefano Please try using the ".mat" extension for native gretl matrix files. If you use ".txt" or ".csv" gretl can get c

[Gretl-users] mwrite & mread

2019-12-18 Thread Stefano
It looks like it is a local problem. I just tested the minimal working example x = ones(nrows,2) mwrite(x,"test.txt") xx=mread("test.txt") mwrite(x,"test.csv") xx=mread("test.csv") <\hansl> with interesting results in successive execution in the same session: * nrows=2: "Data error"; * nro

[Gretl-users] mwrite & mread

2019-12-16 Thread Stefano Fachin
dear all, I run into a weird problem with the functions mwrite and mread (Gretl 2019b; ok, I am six month behind... yet I bet there are thousand of users out there with even older versions, so the post could be of some interest). Mwrite creates csv and txt files with matrix dimensions in row 1