[Gretl-devel] gretl 2020e released
Apologies to anyone receiving multiple copies of this message, but
the gretl 2020e release is now available at
http://gretl.sourceforge.net/
It offers the following list of new features and fixes:
2020-11-21 version 2020e
- New function tdisagg() for temporal disaggregation
(distribution and interpolation)
- New addon package "regls": supports LASSO, Ridge regression
and Elastic net
- New function assert() for debugging purposes
- MPI: update documentation and support transfer of more
data types
- kdensity() function: generalize to allow as argument a
list or matrix with more than one column
- "dataset sortby": handle sorting by string-valued series
- OLS output: don't print out DW statistic when calculation of
Durbin's h fails
- Fix: when extracting a column of a "dated" matrix, copy
across the dates information
- Documentation: add material on forecasting for VARs and
other multi-equation systems
- Improve format of panel plot when there are many unnamed
individuals
- gretlcli and gretlmpi on MS Windows: accept unicode filenames
on the command line
- "midasreg" command: be more flexible in parsing arguments to
mds() terms
- Add to practice scripts: simulation using Klein model
- Implement the '^' operator (logical product) for string-
valued series
- xlsx data importer: handle correctly the case where a given
column is "partially" string-valued
- dbnomics data importer: handle absence of dimensions_labels
in some cases
- mpiscatter() function: revise rule for dividing matrices
for greater efficiency
- Fix bug: possibility of invalid XML when saving a model to
session file
- Fix bug: "smpl" command rejects the combination of "full"
and --quiet
- Fix: --single-yaxis option not respected by "gnuplot" and
"plot" when a band is specified
- Fix: GUI dialog for "join" was not working on Windows
- Fix: work around bug in Apple's LAPACK that could lead to
a crash when computing eigenvalues
- Fix: the Preview button in print dialogs was not working
in macOS build
- Fix: prune correctly the regressor list in the "perfect
prediction" case in RE probit
- Fix: incorrect $vcv matrix for bivariate probit models
- Fix: dbnomics import misaligning data of different
frequencies in certain cases
- Fix: $obsmajor and friends not working for daily data
with non-trading days omitted and dates given in the old
form of YYYY/MM/DD; also "dataset pad-daily" not working
with such old-style dates
- Fix: potential crash on closing a maximized window on
recent macOS (a GDK problem)
- MS Windows build: support printing scripts with syntax
highlighting
- MS Windows build (64-bit): update pixman, cairo and pango
libraries (DLLs)
- MS Windows build: update libeay.dll so as to prevent
crashes on certain CPUs
- MS Windows: give up on trying to write downloaded PDFs
and function packages to "system" location -- go straight
to the user's filespace
- Update packaged fedstl database
- Update several translations
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University