[Gretl-devel] Several things

Hi all, I had lots to do recently, so I had very little time for action on the list. The reason is, I was the local organiser for a conference we just held here in Ancona (http://cide.info/conf/iceee2009.php), which was a lot of work, so allow me to group in this one message a few not-so-closely related items: 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. Gretl wiki: it's great that Andreas has started putting material on it. I hope more will follow. My apologies for it not working properly for some time, but it ought to be ok by now. 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. 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! Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Economia Università Politecnica delle Marche r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti