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wfopen and text representation for missing values

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:11 am
by DBel2012
Hi,

I'm using EViews 7.

I'm importing data from Excel 2010. The file contains two diffrent text reprensentations for missing values : x and ..

I'm using the command wfopen and the na=".."

However, how can I feed the wfopen command to take into account x as the other missing value reprensentation ?

Thanks!

Re: wfopen and text representation for missing values

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:28 am
by EViews Gareth
We don't allow you to specify more than one NA representation. However if you're reading in a numerical series, both "X" and ".." will be transformed to NA (along with any other text values).

Re: wfopen and text representation for missing values

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:44 am
by DBel2012
Gareth,

EViews creates an alphanumeric series instead of a numeric series.

Can I convert the alphaseries to a numeric series ?

If so, what is the command?

Thanks!

Re: wfopen and text representation for missing values

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:14 pm
by EViews Gareth
@val

Re: wfopen and text representation for missing values

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:34 pm
by DBel2012
Many thanks!