[Gretl-announce] gretl 1.8.7 released

See http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Many bug-fixes and a few new features. 01/24/2010 version 1.8.7 - GUI enhancement: add apparatus to help keep track of gretl windows - GUI menus: clean-up and consolidation - New command: "qqplot" (Quantile-Quantile plots) - Normal random samples: implement the Ziggurat method - "dataset" command: document the "clear" keyword - "rmplot" command: save $test and $pvalue - "restrict" with --bootstrap option: record $test and $pvalue - "corrgm" and "xcorrgm": allow the lag order to be given as a named scalar variable - VECMs: add $ec accessor - VARs: remove $vcv accessor - VARs and VECMs: enable accessors $df, $ncoeff and $xtxinv - BFGSmax function: add facility for supplying analytical derivatives - Eviews data importer: handle more cases of .wf1 files - BFGS: make the degree of verbosity tunable via "set bfgs_verbskip" - Fix bug: crash on error in user_matrix_ols() - Fix bug: "append" for data should work in more cases - Fix bug: saving a model when there is already a saved model of the same name (in the GUI) caused a crash - Fix bug: setting of sub-sample information on models estimated with a loop construct - Fix bug: the GUI option for reporting standardized residuals for GARCH models got broken - Fix bug: handling of on-the-fly matrices in "printf" - Fix bugs: miscellaneous small GUI bugs - Fix bugs 2918790, 2918783, 2918775, 2917053 -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University