change to website cvs files
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
I wanted to just adjust the mentioned gretl_install.exe size of '9MB' to
'12MB', but I'm not so sure about the way the html files are handled in
cvs. I would have edited 'doc/website/template/win32_pat.html', would
that have been correct?
thanks,
sven
14 years
make pdfdocs problem
by Sven Schreiber
With current cvs and --enable-build-doc I get the following error with
make pdfdocs:
! LaTeX Error: Command \textcurrency unavailable in encoding T1.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.1 Mä
rz, 2010
?
'März' is German for 'March', the only month with non-ascii characters
in German (well actually only in DE_de, because in DE_at they use
'Jänner' for January instead of 'Januar' -- not sure if you really
wanted to know that though...).
thanks,
sven
14 years
Re: [Gretl-devel] [Gretl-users] VAR: Impulse-response
by Sven Schreiber
Sven Schreiber schrieb:
> Henrique Andrade schrieb:
>> Dear Gretl Community,
>>
>> I have a question about how Gretl calculates the VAR impulse-responses.
>> Although Gretl says that an one-standard error shock is used in the
>> calculations I can't confirm this, once another value for the standard
>> error is given in the estimation results. To illustrate this I will give
>> an example:
>>
>> <script>
>> open australia.gdt
>> "Modelo 1" <- var 1 le lpus lpau --impulse-responses
>> </script>
>>
>> The standard-error of the "Equation 1" (le) is 0.048110, but the
>> impulse-response uses 0.046827 as the standard-error. I did the same
>> estimation using EViews and, according to that software, 0.046827 is the
>> standard-error with degrees of freedom correction and 0.046827 is the
>> standard-error without degrees of freedom correction.
>>
>>
>
> Exactly, so you answered the question yourself. I tend to agree that the
> displayed standard error should be used, and then this would be a small
> bug. (there were some changes with VARs and dof-corrections recently,
> cf. the accessors $xtxinv, $sigma, and I guess that what you saw was on
> oversight -- but maybe I'm wrong and it's done on purpose)
>
>
[moving over to devel]
Allin, so do you think this is a bug?
thanks,
sven
14 years, 1 month
GUI bug
by Alexander B. Gedranovich
14 years, 1 month
open path bug
by Sven Schreiber
I have a script and a workfile in the same directory (and that directory
is not the CWD or dotdir or anything). The script starts with the open
command:
open ea16_96m1_sven18feb10.gdt --quiet
and after starting gretl everything works fine.
However, when I modify the script a little bit, save it, and then
execute it again, I get an error:
? open ea16_96m1_sven18feb10.gdt --quiet
Fehler bei Skriptausführung: Stopp
Restarting gretl cures the (apparently reproducible) issue.
thanks,
sven
14 years, 1 month
what happened to gretl-config?
by Paul Johnson
I am a Linux packager for RPM and DEB based systems and I also teach
statistics. I stopped in to your web page to experiment with gretl.
I became curious to know why the gretl packages for Ubuntu/Debian are
lagging behind the times. The repositories seem stalled at 1.8.1 and I
got interested in building an up-to-date deb for gretl-1.8.7. I
adapted Dirk Eddelbuettel's debian setup from the gretl-1.8.1 package
build, but the package build failed when it got to the installation of
a script called gretl-config. In gretl-1.8.1, I find there is a
gretl-config that is generated by the configure script and the debian
package libgretl1-dev includes it. But in 1.8.7, the configure script
no longer generates gretl-config.
It is a bit confusing trying to track the changes through gretl-1.8.1
through 1.8.7. The gretl Changelog does not mention it. In 1.8.7,
there are still some (vestitgial?) references to gretl-config in
Makefile.in and gretl.m4. But no gretl-config.in exists.
I compared the RPMs for these versions of gretl and they do include
the manpage for gretl-config, but they do not include gretl-config
itself(!?!?). Unlike the debian packaging, I don't find a gretl-devel
RPM package.
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
14 years, 1 month
restrict parsing problem
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
the following mini-script:
<script>
open denmark
ols LRM const LRY IBO IDE
restrict
b[LRY]*b[IBO] - 2*b[IDE]*b[LRY] = 0
end restrict
</script>
gives (excerpt):
? restrict
? b[LRY]*b[IBO] - 2*b[IDE]*b[LRY] = 0
? end restrict
Restriktion:
b[LRY] - 2*b[IDE] = 0
I have now learned how to formulate nonlinear restrictions, so I know
the above is wrong, but I still think the
parsing is problematic. (Should throw an error instead.)
Also, I think it's a natural feature request to make the formulation of
nonlinear restrictions more intuitive. (I know they are a recent
addition and I'm grateful that it's possible at all, so I'm not saying
that it's urgent. But I guess I will put it in the feature request
tracker because of that.)
thanks,
sven
14 years, 1 month
indentation and 'catch'
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
auto-indentation of scripts doesn't seem to work properly for blocks like
catch nls ...
end nls
or
catch gmm ..
end gmm
Is this actually the suggested formatting of using catch here? Or rather:
catch
gmm...
end gmm
??
thanks,
sven
14 years, 1 month
trivial stuff
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
the following keywords aren't syntax-colored.
$hausman
deriv
orthog
params
weights
Also I wonder whether '$' could be colored as well; I think it would be
useful, but I'm not sure right now whether there would be unwanted side
effects?
thanks,
sven
14 years, 1 month
