[Gretl-announce] gretl 1.9.91 released

As usual, see http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ for downloads and other information. 2014-07-28 gretl version 1.9.91 - Add Japanese translation (thanks to Shintaro Nakagawa) - Add new functions: curl(), jsonget(), nlines(), kpsscrit(), genseries() - Add new command "setopt" for pre-setting of command options - Add command "flush" for use with time-consuming scripts and hansl functions - "smpl" command: add a --permanent option to make a sample restriction permanent (not undoable); also add an option --no-all-missing to complement --no-missing - "data" command: support globbing for names of series to fetch from gretl native databases - "ar1" estimation: better error message(s) on failure; also tighten the convergence criterion but add a --loose option for backward compatibility - "modtest" and "coint" commands: add --silent option for each - Importing "CSV" etc: handle UTF-16 and UTF-32 by recoding, if recognized via Byte Order Mark - ghk() function: add an optional trailing argument to receive the derivatives of the multivariate probabilities - weekday() function: generalize to accept series arguments - kdensity() function: accept a vector argument - When creating a matrix from {list} or {dataset}, add the names of the variables as column names - Difference of means test: use Satterthwaite approximation if the two variances are not assumed to be equal - $dwpval: return NA rather than flagging an error if we get a negative Imhof integral (and adjust the doc) - GUI dataset structure "wizard": allow annual data to start in the year 1 - Fix bug: GUI crash when estimation of rho fails for ar1 model - Fixes for the XLS importer including recognition of the Excel NA() function - Fix broken encoding of German translation - Fix bug in OS X (quartz) package: GDK could lose track of its PNG loader, so graphs would not display - Hush some gcc-4.9.0 warnings - Deprecate use of the "set" variable halt_on_error (and remove its documentation) - Build: update config.guess and config.sub from autotools git - Windows build: update to gtk 2.24.24; update gnuplot version to 4.6.6 -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC