MPI bootstrap failures depending on number of iterations
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
I'm struggling with a hard-to-pinpoint problem involving MPI - this is
in relation to the johansensmall package and a pending update.
I cannot yet give very much detail, but in a certain special context for
a lower number of specified bootstrap iterations the thing runs fine,
whereas when cranking up that iteration number, it basically fails with
the typical obscure message from gretlmpi that an external command
failed. So the algorithm and code per se do not seem to be wrong, or
else it would always fail.
My suspicion for now is related to some kind of memory limitation or a
similar constraint. Is that conceivable? How would one check for that?
thanks
sven
2 years, 5 months
unusable combined plot of VAR residuals n=6
by Sven Schreiber
Hi, I was somewhat surprised that something quite basic didn't work out
well: Estimating a 6-dim VAR with roughly T=700 I'm selecting (in the
VAR model/system window) the combined residual plot, and I'm getting a
relatively small window --compared to the screen size-- where the
heights of each of the six plots are very small, and almost nothing can
be seen, really.
Another partly related small remark: In the VAR window, the plot menu
has entries for the IRF labeled with the endogenous variables, which is
good, but the residuals sub-menu just talks of "Equation 1" through
"Equation 6". It would be good to also have the variable names inserted
automatically. (Oh, and it doesn't seem to be marked for translation.)
thanks
sven
2 years, 5 months
set use_dcmt only inside mpi block?
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
for debugging reasons I'm trying to use "set use_dcmt off" as per the
MPI doc, but I get an error. Is this only allowed inside an mpi block,
not "preemptively"? That would make debugging more difficult. Couldn't
the option be handed over to gretlmpi from gretl itself? (Or perhaps
some other thing is going on?)
Thanks
sven
2 years, 5 months
weird function arg bug
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
more or less minimal example:
<hansl>
function list heylist (const series x)
print "aha"
list out = x # L
return out
end function
open denmark
heylist(diff(LRM)) # works!
list oi = heylist(diff(LRM)) # fails
</hansl>
thanks
sven
2 years, 5 months
"markers" command
by Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Currently, we can write the observation markers to a file or to an array,
but we can only read the markers from a file. Of course, one can always
write an array to a file and proceed from there, but it'd be easier if we
had a --from-array option.
Allin, is there a reason for the lack of this option?
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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