[Gretl-announce] gretl 2017b released

See http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ 2017-05-26 version 2017b - "gnuplot" and "plot" commands: support --font option for PDF, EPS and EMF output - "rename" command: add a --quiet option - "arma" command: support --robust (QML) option - "mle" command: support the --cluster robust option - "midasreg" command: several fixes and enhancements - "modprint" command: accept an array of strings as the "names" argument - Allow adding lists as such to bundles - fcstats() function: expand the accepted set of arguments (mix series and vectors, handle multiple forecasts) - New function deflist() for defining a list (of named series) - New function defbundle() for initializing a bundle - New function xmlget() for extracting data from an XML buffer (similar to jsonget) - New function smplspan() to determine the number of observations within a specified time-series range - New function GSSmax(): one-dimensional maximization via Golden Section search - GUI: revamp Time series model menu and ARIMA specification dialog - Fix bug: some operations that check status of a model's list of regressors failing inside functions, or when a model was estimated with no printed output - Fix bug: ensure that the $model accessor (bundle) is available to function packages that attach to a model window - Fix bug: breakage in column headings for the printout of multinomial outcome probabilities in GUI - Fix bug: "catch" failing in loops under certain conditions - Fix bug: plot with the --band option could fail in locales that use the decimal comma - Validate $-bundles as legitimate function arguments -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC