[Gretl-announce] gretl 2016c released

See http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ 2016-07-06 version 2016c - Add Ukrainian translation - Major revision of the user interface to the Kalman filter and state space modeling - New function dropcoll() to expunge collinear terms from a list of series - lags() function: accept a vector for the first argument - New variable under the "set" command: "force_qr" forces the use of QR decomposition in the "ols" command - Add new --band option to the "gnuplot" and "plot" commands, for plotting confidence bands and the like - "gmm", "mle" and "nls" commands: document the previously hidden "param_names" keyword - "nls" command: add --no-gradient-check option, as in "mle" - "append" command: add --fixed-sample option: restricts the operation to "sideways" appending of new series - "data" command, --compact option: add new mode, "spread" - Writing and reading files via commands and functions: ensure that the gretl "working directory" is respected if an absolute path is not given - Fix spurious "no numeric conversion" message emitted by some plot editing operations - Lags button for exogenous variables in VARs: ensure it's sensitive when it's supposed to be - Add Nile flow dataset to the package, plus a sample script that estimates the Local Level model - Function package DTD: make "tags" element mandatory; plus add offline tags list to GUI package editor - Fix bug: crash on malformed "genr" expression with only a type name - Fix bug: crash with the "mpols" command when the dependent variable is a constant - Fix bug: gnuplot error on selecting "loess fit" via the GUI plot editor when the plot already has a fitted line - Fix bug: the transpose-multiply operator (') now respects right-associativity - gig: add variance forecasting (only residual-based for APARCH so far) - Miscellaneous smaller bug fixes -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC