Re: [Gretl-devel] A way to read RData files in gretl
Dear Sven,
I am glad you have noticed it
I vote for reconsidering the policy
Some scripts are more secure than others:
for example forecast is by Rob
Hyndman who is (was?) editor in chief
of International Journal of Forecasting,
so he may be more truthful person than me
And I have the explicit emailed permission
from Rob to upload gretl interface to his
package where I wish provided proper reference.
In contrast, r_model() can do God knows what
so it may be undesirable
In all, it depends
Also, I mow know how to read ts data frames as
time series datasets
Oleh
P.S
Have you notice news message on staging update
of gqtest?
27 вересня 2017, 19:00:14, від "Sven Schreiber" <svetosch(a)gmx.net>:
Am 25.09.2017 um 00:29 schrieb > oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net:
> Dear All,
> During the recent times
> there were several threads
> on importing RData files into gretl
>
> The attachment contains a function
> to open RData files in gretl
>
> In contrast to the native foreign
> importers it requires R installed
> (not a strong requirement, at least
> on linux, since R is included into
> dependencies list for building gretl)
Thanks Oleh, that sounds very good.
Here is a general comment to all: I think that maybe it is time to
reconsider the policy that gretl function packages must not depend on R.
R has become so widespread, and also we have in gretl the very nice
possibility to define and call your own R functions directly (see
section 38.7 of the user guide), that it almost seems silly not to
leverage all the potential. Even Eviews has been doing it for a while
already.
Having said that, I think the package author would have to do quite a
bit of error-catching in her/his package, because otherwise a function
package that uses R in the background could potentially fail for reasons
that will look very mysterious. I think the package moderators (myself
included) would have to watch out for this.
But of course this is just the start of the discussion.
cheers,
sven
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