Re: [Gretl-devel] subsampling and out-of-sample values

On Sun, 6 Dec 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote: >>> I have to say it's quite frustrating, I'm getting nowhere except >>> uncovering bugs and other limitations. One of the nice things with gretl >>> is that data handling is usually nice and efficient. With panel data my >>> impression is different. And now think about someone without my level of >>> gretl experience... >> >> But you're not just any other gretl user. You're a gretl developer, and >> this is the devel-list. Bug eradication is one of our jobs. > > Today I didn't want to be a developer, I just wanted to use gretl. The > reason I was posting to the devel list is because of what I found. Handling panel datasets is objectively difficult. With all the limitations and bugs you exposed, I still believe we're _leaps and bounds_ above R in that respect (which I consider as our closest competitor). "But Stata", I hear you say. OK, that's what they charge you money for: they do their debugging behind closed doors. We do ours in public. That's the "O" in FLOSS. And I'm telling you what: I'm actually PROUD that we do. I spent hundreds, possibly thousands of hours of my time trying to contribute to a high-quality FLOSS econometric package. You did, too. Like Ignacio and several others. Allin is (deservedly) the hero of a crowd, out there. Every bug we find and close is a small battle we win.