[Gretl-announce] gretl 1.9.8 released
As usual, see http://gretl.sourceforge.net/
2012-03-29 gretl version 1.9.8
- GUI: support use of named lists in the model specification
dialog and other contexts
- GUI: add option of making the script editor and the model
viewer windows use tabs
- GUI: add "reformat" option to summary statistics window for
single series
- GUI: add keyboard shortcut help file
- Add a new practice script illustrating advanced use of mle
command, and extend the discussion of mle in the User's Guide
- New function pxsum(): computes the cross-sectional sum of a
series in the context of panel data
- stack() function for panel data: allow '*' in forming list of
series
- Compaction of daily to weekly data: enable this even if the
daily data are not dated
- "panel" command: add --nerlove option to use Nerlove's
transformation in the context of the random effects estimator
- "system" command: various small fixes and enhancements,
including greater computational efficiency
- "pca" command: add --quiet option and parameter to allow
specification of the number of components to save
- "coint" command: add --verbose option and fix printout of
model at last step of Engle-Granger test
- "graphpg" command: add "fonstscale" parameter (but also try
harder to get the default font size right for various gnuplot
versions)
- princomp() function: add an optional switch to use the
covariance matrix
- matrix manipulation: enable use of the boolean operators "&&"
and "||" as element-wise operations on matrices
- Function packages: prevent a package's "bundle-plot" function
from appearing in the initial GUI listing of public functions
- Fix bug: avoid introducing "decimal commas" in setting size of
PDF plots in gnuplot
- Fix bug: deletion of matrices within a loop: ensure that the
GUI icon view is updated properly if it's open at the time
- Fix bug in serialization of matrices as XML (which broke, for
example saving of VARs in gretl session files)
- Fix bug: the --to-file option for "labels" was broken
- Fix bug: misbehavior of substitution of named strings in some
loop contexts
- Fix bug: breakage in handling of string-valued variables in
CVS import
- Fix bug: possible crash in mle if a derivatives matrix is
resized
- Fix bug: possible crash in GUI function package editor on
adding a function to a package containing a single function
- Fix bug: data import from RATS databases broken on 64-bit
systems
- Fix bug: the "smpl" command with --restrict option should
support the full maximum length of the gretl command line (16K
bytes)
- Various small fixes for spreadsheet data importers
- For third-party users of libgretl: improve handling of search
for the gretl plugins
- Configure check for gnome desktop: support gnome 3.0
- Temporary files: use mkstemp() instead of mktemp()
- MS Windows and OS X: update packaged gnuplot to version 4.6.0
- MS Windows build: update cross-compiler to gcc-4.6.2
- Build tools: update to libtool 2.4.2
- Building from source: fix configure script for non-sse2 build
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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC