Re: [Gretl-devel] Several things
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
acf function: all in all, I like it. I have a few reservations
as of now, but I'll keep them to myself until I find some time
to study the code (next few days)
VAR/VECM stuff: ditto.
I'll look forward to hearing your suggestions; I'm not
super-confident about what I've done with these things.
Google summer of code: one of the people I met in person for the
first time at the conference was Stefano Iacus, from the R core
team, who is one of the maintainers of the foreign package. In
the past, we grabbed code from one another: they got the Eviews
filter from Allin's implementation, we got the Stata filter,
IIRC we both got SPSS from PSPP. We agreed that it'd be great to
have a separate project for filters as a C library that gretl
and R could both link to centralise efforts; however, it'd be
quite a lot of work. A nice idea that Stefano had was to propose
this as a GSOC project, with joint R/gretl sponsorship; however,
I understand that there's little time left to set up this kind
of initiative, so if you guys think it's a good idea, it's time
to start planning it.
Sounds great. Personally I don't expect to have time to plan
this, but if anyone else is willing to take the initiative on
gretl's behalf I'll be glad to "sign on".
Mac users: since the Mac subpopulation is not very active on our
mailing lists, I got hold of all mac users I could find at the
conference to ask them (1) if they use gretl and (2) if they
found and bugs or inconveniences. Much to my delight, I got yes
to (1) and no to (2) in all cases. Again, kudos to Allin!
Good to hear! I've felt a bit in the dark as to how gretl works
on the Mac, although it works fine on the one machine I'm able to
test on (from time to time), running OS X 10.4. One thing I have
in mind, but haven't managed to get to yet, is to try out the new
native Quartz implementation of GTK+ for the Mac, which now seems
to be reasonably mature. If we can get that working it would cut
out the dependency on X11 and make gretl somewhat more Mac-ish.
Allin.