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Sporadic error in exporting to excel

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:39 am
by msz111
Dear Forum users,

When running the routine below to extract data into excel, I get sporadic errors saying that the target file does not exist or eviews stops working altogether, Running the program again more often than not the error vanishes. This is a problem because getting to the results is quite time consuming.

Is there something in the routine that is confusing eviews?

many thanks for your help
Michele

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'------------------------------------------------------- ' 4.1 EXPORT 1 '------------------------------------------------------- vector(7) percentiles 'Store percentiles to extract percentiles.fill 10, 20, 40, 50, 60, 80, 90 'Define percentiles of interest 'Export replications for %s bl ub lb for %perc dgdp pbgdp ints intlm spread intlnm i_eff iegdp rgy piy w group g_{%s}_{%perc} 'Group to store results for %d ps ts for !i = 1 to @rows(percentiles) !j = percentiles(!i) g_{%s}_{%perc}.add {%d}_{%s}_{%perc}_perc_!j next next wfsave(type=excelxml, mode=update) "Myfile1.xlsx" range={%s}_{%perc} @smpl {%firstp}-4 {%lastp} @keep {%s}_{%perc}_0 g_{%s}_{%perc} next next '------------------------------------------------------- ' 4.2 EXPORT 2 '------------------------------------------------------- group g_baseline group g_dgdp for %s bl ub lb g_baseline.add {%s}_dgdp_0 {%s}_pbgdp_0 {%s}_iegdp_0 {%s}_intlnm_0 {%s}_i_eff_0 {%s}_w_0 g_dgdp.add g_{%s}_dgdp next for %group g_baseline g_dgdp wfsave(type=excelxml, mode=update) "Myfile2.xlsx" range={%group} @smpl {%firstp}-4 {%lastp} @keep {%group} next

Re: Sporadic error in exporting to excel

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:52 am
by EViews Gareth
There is nothing obviously wrong with the code. Off the top of my head, possible causes would be either some network/disk issue, or that Excel is acting funky. The mode=update means that EViews actually uses Excel to create the file, and sometimes Excel can be a bit weird.

Re: Sporadic error in exporting to excel

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:08 am
by msz111
Hi Garreth, Thank you for looking through it.
Is there any more reliable way to export data so that it is excel readable?

Thanks
Michele