[Limdep Nlogit List] Reading Excel data file without variable names

[William Greene]

I know I'm missing something here - this sounds like pushing a square peg
into a round hole.  If the file is read without names, then how will you refer to
the variables when you operate the program?  The program can issue default
names X1, X2,... but do you really want this?  On the other hand, all it takes to
get around this is to read the Excel file into Excel, and add a row of names to
it.  (Phil has it right, by the way, the program does expect the row of names in
all cases.)
/Bill Greene

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip A. Viton" <viton.1 at osu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:23 am
Subject: Re: [Limdep Nlogit List] Reading Excel data file without	variable names

> 
> From the online help (under READ):
> 
> "But, worksheet files must be read with ;NAMES (no list is needed) 
> in 
> the command."
> 
> So reading-without-names apparently isn't possible. You could 
> always 
> dump the excel data to an ascii file and read it in that way: in 
> which case names are automatically assigned.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 12:47 PM 8/23/2006, you wrote:
> >Dear fellow limdep users
> >
> >How can I read an Excel data file without variable names. I tried 
> >with and without the ;names= option and came down with the error 
> message:>
> >     ;file=e:\agec524\students\datasets\excel\wage1.xls
> >     ;format=xls $
> >Error:   278: WKx/DIF/XLS.Numeric data found where var name was 
> expected.>
> >Please help. Thanks.
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> Philip A. Viton
> City Planning, Ohio State University
> 275 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus OH 43210
> viton.1 at osu.edu
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