[Gretl-announce] gretl 1.7.8 released

At http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ 9/14/2008 version 1.7.8 - Add a language-switching option to the gretl GUI (under Preferences/General) - Improve formatting of HCCME options pane - Fix breakage in "rename" command (renaming series) - Fix bug 2089048 - Enable Chow test for non-time series datasets - Revise formatting style for model output - Change the label "standard error of residuals" to "standard error of the regression" - Allow users to change the text size in help windows - Fix two more bugs in connection with user-defined functions in the context of a sub-sampled dataset - Fix bug: with the --panel-vars option to the "setobs" command, check more carefully the validity of the supposed unit and time-period index variables - Chow test: perform a robust version if the original model was estimated using an HCCME - OS X package: fix for the problem whereby GTK could lose track of its image-loading modules - CSV data: improve recognition of daily dates - PCA: fix column-order of components in printout for the case of more than 7 components - Small fixes for opening of datafiles in GUI - GARCH: add --nc option to suppress the constant in the mean equation; add --fcp option to use Fiorentini et al code; expand and update help entry - Periodogram graph: always base y-axis at zero - Seasonal ARMA: fix for bad handling of automatically added scalars -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC