On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2015, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote:
> Dear Sven,
> Thanks for hopeful comment.
> First of all I mean R and Octave, since the are as GNU as Gretl, and the
> only marginal costs are several (dozens) seconds to install. I plan to
> include install.packages(c("pkg1","pkg2",....) into the sample
script, so
> the user has only to install R and run the sample script once.
I take your point, but it would be better if function packages could be
trusted to rely only on gretl and its own dependencies (gnuplot, latex etc).
Otherwise, users would need to maintain pieces of software they don't really
need just to use ONE feature.
Besides, I would imagine that writing a panel version of the poisson model is
perfectly possible in hansl. [...]
I tend to agree with Jack on this. I can imagine that we might want to
set up a repository for interesting/useful applications of "foreign"
in gretl, but IMO this should be separate from our array of function
packages.
Allin