[Gretl-devel] a few Rlib problems

I just tried the new Rlib thing on one of Lee Adkins' (http://www.learneconometrics.com/gretl/ebook.pdf) examples; attached you'll find a simple script and the dataset to replicate Lee's section 16.9.2 (coditional logit). A couple of things that need to be fixed appeared when you use the new mechanism: 1) If you run the script through the GUI client, the output of the R foreign block isn't included in the output window; the cli client is ok. 2) More worryingly, it seems that the R computations are done _twice_. If you run the script with Rlib on, you'll see the output Calculating MLEs and large sample var-cov matrix. This may take a moment... Inverting Hessian to get large sample var-cov matrix. before the output is displayed _and_ after. This is not a simple output redirection issue, the R function is actually called twice. On my machine, the output to time gretlcli -b LA-cola.inp is real 0m16.775s user 0m16.697s sys 0m0.052s with Rlib off and real 0m32.201s user 0m32.074s sys 0m0.036s with Rlib on. Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Economia Università Politecnica delle Marche r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti