Other data file formats

gretl will read various other data formats.

When you import data from the CSV or BOX formats, gretl opens a "diagnostic" window, reporting on its progress in reading the data. If you encounter a problem with ill-formatted data, the messages in this window should give you a handle on fixing the problem.

For the convenience of anyone wanting to carry out more complex data analysis, gretl has a facility for writing out data in the native formats of GNU R and GNU Octave (see Appendix C). In the GUI client this option is found under the "File" menu; in the command-line client use the store command with the flag -r (R) or -m (Octave).