gretl 1.9.11 released
by Allin Cottrell
The quick turnaround since the 1.9.10 release is mostly due to
the fact that 1.9.10 contained some build bugs that made life
difficult for packagers. However, there are some fixes and
enhancements in 1.9.11 that should be useful more generally.
2012-11-21 gretl version 1.9.11
- Substantial re-write of code for handling named variables
other than series (matrices, scalars, strings, etc.) in the
interest of maintainability and efficiency
- "restrict" command: try to ensure that standard errors show
as zero when they are in principle zero
- "loop": support use of $-substitution in the expression that
controls a nested loop
- Fix bug: spurious detection of line continuation characters
in #-style comments that do not start a command line
- Fix bug: "eval" not working correctly for anonymous strings
- Fix build bug: "make check" not working properly
- Fix build bug: XDG (desktop) files not getting installed in
a manner suitable for packagers of gretl
- Support a matrix as an element-wise boolean condition for
the ternary "?" operator
- The msortby() function: ensure that it performs a "stable"
sort, such that rows sharing a common key value are never
interchanged
- The inbundle() function: return a code that identifies the
type of a bundled item; also add typestr() function to turn
this code into a string
- GUI: allow resizing of plot windows, using the "+", "-" and
"0" keys (depends on gnuplot's pngcairo driver)
- GUI: fix for "save as..." for session files on Windows
- GUI: fix for right-click in icon view window
- GUI: fix for font selector in the GTK 3 version of the code
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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
12 years
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gretl 1.9.10 released
by Allin Cottrell
See http://gretl.sourceforge.net/
2012-11-05 version 1.9.10
- Update translations
- Major new command "join": this adds sophisticated procedures
for assembling a dataset from multiple sources
- New command "markers": manipulate observation marker strings
- "delete" command: add a --force option to permit deletion of
series in loops (to be used with caution!)
- "data" command: allow this in loops
- "open" command: rename the option for reading fixed format
data from --cols to --fixed-cols; also allow use of this command
in loops (gretlcli only)
- "dpanel" and "arbond" commands: indicate in the model
printout if the AR, Sargan or Wald tests failed
- "gnuplot" command: add a --with-lp option to use linespoints
- "modtest" command: support the autocorrelation option for
ARMA models, using the Ljung-Box statistic
- "boxplot" command: add a --matrix option (works in the same
way as with the "gnuplot" command)
- "freq" command: add a --matrix option to select a column
from a named matrix instead of a series
- "corrgm" command: make the $test and $pvalue accessors
available for the Ljung-Box test at the maximum lag
- "xtab" command: use string values of variables if available
- Add three new functions: ghk(), halton() and isnan()
- The mread() function now allows leading #-comment lines in
the plain text file from which a matrix is read
- Add two new accessors: $pi and $huge
- Fix for ARMA forecasts: ensure that the dynamic portion
starts as soon as possible when the --dynamic option is
given
- Switch to using libcurl for HTTP transaction support
- Add two new element-wise matrix operators, ".>=" and ".<=",
(greater than or equal, less than or equal)
- Fix some buggy behavior in regard to empty matrices
- Fix for use of "catch" (to trap errors) in loops
- Fix GUI bug: lagged series could become invisible in the
main window under some (unusual) conditions
- Allow passing "null" as an argument for lists in
user-defined functions
- Enable indexing into named lists to get the ID numbers of
series
- Bivariate normal cdf: switch from Drezner(78) to a faster
and more robust algorithm
- randgen() function, gamma distribution option: switch to the
fast Marsaglia-Tsang generator for gamma variates
- GUI: add check for updated addons, such as gig
- GUI icon view: enable copying of graphs and matrices
- GUI graphs: in saving as PDF, remember the user's choice of
font size for the duration of the session
- MS Windows build: work around problems associated with the
"Virtual Store" folder-redirection introduced in Windows
Vista
- Linux: add proper XDG support (mime types, icons)
- OS X package: update the gmp, mpfr and fftw libraries
- MS Windows and OS X: update gnuplot to version 4.6.1
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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
12 years
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