release schedule
by Allin Cottrell
Well, I said not so long ago that we were aiming for a release on
Monday, now a couple of days ago. But then we had a flurry of
suggestions and, if not quite bug reports, then problem reports. So
I thought it was worth waiting a little.
Since I'll be offline for a few days, my revised ETA for gretl 2017c
is now Tuesday, July 18.
Allin
6 years, 9 months
bundle-print function in a GUI package
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
I'm trying to extend a package with a bundle-print function (as
defined/explained in the package guide) which works on the bundle
returned from the gui-main function. However, I'm not getting any
printout in the output window -- but the bundle elements show up OK via
the button in that window.
Is there a complete package that uses bundle-print successfully, and
preferably which isn't an add-on like gig etc.? So that I can compare
and spot my mistake.
thanks,
sven
6 years, 9 months
next release
by Allin Cottrell
We're planning to release gretl 2017c soon (I'm thinking of Monday,
July 10), so if anyone wants to update a translation, or has a bug
report pending, this would be a good time to act.
I'll mention a few bugs that have been fixed lately (not sure in all
cases how long-standing they are), so that people know they don't
need to report them again:
* Crash on doing a forecast with plot via the GUI: some translations
included strings that overflowed the space available. Fix: make the
strings in question dynamically allocated, not fixed-size buffers.
* "/Tools/command log" view broken on Windows: the mkstemp()
function works differently on Windows from on Linux or Mac. Fix:
don't attempt to open a second FILE for reading the log, rewind the
existing FILE then reposition it once we're done reading.
* ARIMA model via GUI on Windows: on choosing "Show details of
iterations", the window that's supposed to show the details comes up
empty. Another Windows mkstemp() issue. Fix: scrap the notion of a
separate "details" window, just print the "iteration details" before
the main ARIMA output in the model window (which is what we do with
most estimators when verbosity is requested.)
Allin
6 years, 9 months
Unexpected behavior with string valued series.
by Logan Kelly, Ph.D.
Hello,
Spouses X is a string valued series. Then I am able to include X as an independent variable in an OLS estimation without an error (using the gui). Is this a feature or a bug? I wonder if that should not cause an error or at least a warning?
Logan
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6 years, 9 months
Surprising behavior of packages editor
by Marcin Błażejowski
Hi,
this is something I discovered durning my recent work and what can
happen in very(?) rare cases.
Situation:
1. We have two packages (FOO1.gfn and FOO2.gfn), both with public
function 'FOO_func1' (but behavior I'm describing here affects private
functions too).
2. We open in packages editor package FOO2.
3. In regular script window we run following code:
<hansl>
include FOO1.gfn
eval FOO_func1()
</hansl>
4. We open in packages editor function FOO_func1 from the FOO2 package
and... this is FOO_func1 from _FOO1_!!!
Marcin
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Marcin Błażejowski
6 years, 9 months
GUI forecasts: menu in the FC window (feature request)
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
I had a teaching session for forecasting with gretl in GUI style, and I
found the forecast result window a little un-intuitive. So I think that
window could use a menu bar, even though it might be a very short bar.
First, it was unclear to me how I could save the forecast to a series. A
student pointed out (fortunately) that there's the "+" button in the
window which does just that. But I think if someone like me who has been
using Gretl for years doesn't get it, it's a problem. (Please no jokes
about my limited cleverness.)
If there had been a menu item "Save", it would have been obvious I think.
Secondly, how can I save the forecast standard errors from the GUI? It
seems it's impossible, although I know how to do it in a script with
$fcerr (BTW, it now occurs to me that "fcerr" sounds more like fc
errors, i.e. y-\hat{y}, but it's probably too late to change that).
So I think once we have a "Save" menu in the FC window, then it would be
very easy to add also the possibility to save the equivalent of $fcerr
to a series. And perhaps also the lower/upper bounds of the FC intervals.
thanks,
sven
6 years, 9 months
twitter
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
for some reason we didn't talk at the conference about the possibility
of using Twitter to spread information about gretl, in parallel to other
channels.
Suppose I were to open a quasi-"official" twitter account for gretl,
what would be your arguments against it? The tweets would contain mainly
links to news about gretl I guess (features, tutorials, conferences,
packages, etc.).
Not going to happen in the next days (weeks?) though...
cheers,
sven
6 years, 9 months
Further MPI question
by Marcin Błażejowski
Hi,
as we know MPI block has an option "--send-functions" for sharing any
functions defined in the invoking script with MPI nodes. But what about
packages?
Suppose I have a package consists of three functions: foo1, foo2 and
foo3 and inside the foo3 I have MPI block in which I want to use foo1
and foo2. Will the "--send-functions" option then work? Because I
suppose for now it doesn't.
Regards,
Marcin
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Marcin Błażejowski
6 years, 9 months
