gretl 2016b released
by Allin Cottrell
As usual, at http://gretl.sourceforge.net/
2016-04-14 version 2016b
- "panel" command, random-effects version: show an overall
Wald chi-square test on the named regressors; also support
the --robust option
- "dataset" command: expose and document the "pad-daily"
option
- "vecm" command: clarify the options available when specify-
ing a restriction on beta via matrices R and q
- Commands that produce both textual output and plots: add
a --plot option to control the format of the plot
- GUI help text: make references to the Gretl User's Guide
chapter-specific, and make the file open at the specified
chapter if the PDF viewer supports that functionality
- GUI "view code" option for function packages: avoid slow
loading of big code buffers
- GUI plot editor: enable selection of point size for graph
styles that use points
- Internal code: introduce several optimizations to speed up
execution of complex scripts
- "foreign" language mechanism: add basic support for Julia
(including editing and execution of Julia programs)
- build: try harder to respect --disable-nls (though this is
very difficult nowadays)
- Fix bug: crash on performing some matrix transformations
using the GUI "icon view"
- Fix bug: broken format in output of actual versus forecast
values in some cases
- Fix bug: CSV import failing in locales that use decimal
comma when file uses decimal comma and also '.' as thousands
marker
- Fix bug: handling of "missingness" in imported daily data
not working quite right
- Fix bug: "omit" command with --auto option failing for
ordered logit/probit models
- Fix bug: potential crash in printing the results of a
random-effects probit model with small RE variance
- Fix bug: GUI access to nonparametric models was broken
- Fix bug: not flagging an error when given a broken right-
hand side specification in the "restrict" command
- Fix bug: matrix-form restrictions on VECM model not being
accepted even when valid, in some cases
- Fix bug: partial parsing of command line when blocked by a
false if-condition could give rise to spurious errors
- Fix bugs: some subtle fail conditions for saving compiled
loops onto functions
- OS X (quartz) build: update to GTK 2.24.29, and fix a GTK
issue which led to crashes on OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
- OS X (quartz) build: fix problem with gnuplot wxt window,
add Adwaita theme, and make Adwaita the default
- Bundled gnuplot for Windows and OS X: update to 5.1 cvs as
of March 2016
- MS Windows builds: update to OpenBLAS 0.2.18dev.
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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
8 years, 8 months
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