gretl 2018b released
by Allin Cottrell
As usual, see http://gretl.sourceforge.net/
2018-08-11 version 2018b
- New feature: support for data access via dbnomics
- New feature: the GUI console now uses syntax highlighting
- Revised feature: the descriptive "labels" for series can
now be of arbitrary length
- Substantial speed-up of AR(I)MA estimation, using
Melard's algorithm AS 197; also improvements to the
initialization for such estimation
- New option --name for the "data" command: rename a series
on importation
- New option --tree for "print": show content of bundles
recursively
- New function jsongetb(): construct a bundle mirroring the
content of a JSON tree
- New function lrcovar(): long-run covariance
- New function fevd(): forecast error variance decomposition
following estimation via "var" or "vecm"
- New accessor $system (bundle) following estimation of a
system of equations
- Enhancements for nadarwat() function
- When R_functions is set "on", accept call to an R function
without assignment of the return value, if any
- Fixes for GUI model specification dialog: breakage in
selection of GARCH robust variance estimator variant,
and non-availability of lag selection in some cases
where it should be available
- Fix bug: "omit" command not working for dynamic panel
models
- Fix bug: saved argument lists for function packages
getting out of sync with the user-selected interface
- Fix bug: command-line refinements for the "graphpg"
command subject to bitrot
- Fix bug: crash on Windows when using Tab key in the data
editor window
- Fix bug: crash in "modprint" under some conditions
- Fix bug: potential crash in Stata (dta) importer under
some conditions
- Fix bug: wrong handling of intra-sample missing values
with "pca" command
- Fix bug: files written by third-party programs under
gretl's "foreign" could end up not visible to users
- Fix quasi-bug: failure on calling gnuplot when there's
no variation on the x-axis
- Fix for Windows: support for filenames that cannot be
represented correctly in the active code page
- Builds for Windows and Mac (Quartz): update to gnuplot
5.2.4
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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
6 years, 3 months
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