Contribution to DB.NOMICS
by Henrique Andrade
Dear Allin,
The main public providers of economic data here is Brazil are the
Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) and IBGE. Take a look at the Wikipedia
entry:
"The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE is the
agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic,
cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil."
They both have API's for retrieve data and I know how to use them
(actually I wrote some scripts that we use at Ministry of Finance). I
was thinking to send an email to DB.NOMICS offering that solution but
I had a better idea: IMHO, it would be great, in terms of Gretl's
visibility, that this kind of help could be done by the Gretl Team
itself.
Additionally we could try to be listed at Resources section of the
DB.NOMICS website (today it has R and Python listed).
Best,
Henrique Andrade
6 years, 7 months
"files listing" in homepage
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
I'm wondering what's the purpose of the extra "Files listing" entry in
the left-hand menu bar? Isn't the link to the sourceforge page per se
already enough?
Obviously just a very minor thing, but the webpage menu has many many
entries.
cheers,
sven
6 years, 7 months
installing the docs from a git compile
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
by looking at the Makefile I've just learned that I need to do (on
Linux) "sudo make install-doc" in addition to a plain "sudo make
install" if I want to have the current git version of the user guide
available from within gretl (also compiled from current git). Otherwise
-at least for me- gretl either loads the outdated local copies of the
pdf doc files from a previous install, or it downloads the (also
slightly outdated) copies from the server.
This step isn't mentioned in the guide I think (Appendix C: Building
gretl). Is my solution the correct one (then I think it should be
mentioned in the guide), or should it be done differently?
thanks,
sven
6 years, 7 months
"NA" revisited
by Allin Cottrell
Following discussions between Jack and myself, here's a sort of
"RFC" for changing the internal definition of "NA" in gretl, which we
believe can be done with full backward compatibility.
Little PDF attached.
Allin
6 years, 7 months
Problems launchig DB.Nomics URL from Help
by Hélio Guilherme
Hello masters Allin and Jack (and Sven, and Henrique, and ...).
On my Fedora 28 Linux,
>From the help on Specific Series, I tried to launch
https://next.nomics.world/
First I got an error with Firefox and it did not start the browser:
urlcmd='firefox -remote "openURLNewWindow(https://next.nomics.world/)"' err
= 0
Second, with Google-Chrome it opened the site, but a lot of output
(specific of my system related with fonts):
urlcmd='google-chrome "https://next.nomics.world/""'
gretl_spawn: 'Text ended before matching quote was found for ". (The text
was “google-chrome "https://next.nomics.world/""”)'
Failed command: 'google-chrome "https://next.nomics.world/""'
err = 1
(...) Removed a lot of messages from Chrome
gretl_clipboard_set: fmt=1, imgtype=0, n_targs=4
gretl_clipboard_get: info = 0 (TARGET_UTF8_STRING)
gretl_clipboard_get: info = 0 (TARGET_UTF8_STRING)
Since I use KDE, I also experimented Konqueror, but similarly with Friefox
it did not launched the browser:
urlcmd='konqueror -remote "openURLNewWindow(https://next.nomics.world/)"'
err = 0
This is not problematic, but I'd like for you to test on different systems.
Thanks.
6 years, 7 months
