Importing data from eviews

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Importing data from eviews

Postby miorinnovo » Fri Jan 05, 2018 12:42 pm

Hello,

I'm trying to import data from an excel file but the data starts a few rows down, how do I specify the starting cell?

Thank you

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Re: Importing data from eviews

Postby EViews Gareth » Fri Jan 05, 2018 1:22 pm

In general you do not need to, since EViews will figure it out for itself.

However you can specify a specific range using the range= argument on both the import and wfopen commands.
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Re: Importing data from eviews

Postby miorinnovo » Fri Jan 05, 2018 3:19 pm

Thanks, I'm just having an issue with naming the series because I dont have a name on the row directly above the data I want. Is there a way to choose another row with titles in it? Here my code:

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import B:\\file.xlsx range=page!$A13:$H$149 colhead=1 na="#N/A" @freq M 2010m08 @id @date @smpl @all

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Re: Importing data from eviews

Postby EViews Gareth » Fri Jan 05, 2018 4:14 pm

Unfortunately not - the names need to be part of the single range.
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Re: Importing data from eviews

Postby miorinnovo » Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:44 pm

Thanks, when I try to import eviews stops responding and it says "uncompromising file" in bottom left. Any idea what might be the problem?

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Re: Importing data from eviews

Postby EViews Steve » Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:33 pm

Care to post the file here?

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Re: Importing data from eviews

Postby miorinnovo » Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:03 pm

I was just being impatient it seems. it eventually works. thanks!


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