Re: [Gretl-devel] A question on eligibility of foreign languages interface packages
Dear Allin,
I can imagine that we might want to
set up a repository for interesting/useful applications of "foreign"
in gretl, but IMO this should be separate from our array of function
packages.
I think, it's a very nice idea
I myself thought of proposing it yesterday
It can be a temporary solution before we will have proper hansl functions
For example, I will have nonlinear panel data classes in December.
I want to have, say 4-5 models with mfx's and diagnostics.
It's unrealistic to have it all in time.
But with foreign it's possible
The version of Riccardo deals with fixed effects
The interface can do poisson, negbin, pooling, randon, between, within and
detects time-constant varibles,,6 methods of optimization etc.
Besides, I have spent 4-5 times more computing the new thing: mfx's,
than making an interface
All in one: for me the separate repository is the best idea
Oleh
5 жовтня 2015, 19:25:10, від "Allin Cottrell" <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>:
On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2015, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote:
>
>> Dear Sven,
>> Thanks for hopeful comment.
>
>> First of all I mean R and Octave, since the are as GNU as Gretl, and the
>> only marginal costs are several (dozens) seconds to install. I plan to
>> include install.packages(c("pkg1","pkg2",....) into the
sample script, so
>> the user has only to install R and run the sample script once.
>
> I take your point, but it would be better if function packages could be
> trusted to rely only on gretl and its own dependencies (gnuplot, latex etc).
> Otherwise, users would need to maintain pieces of software they don't really
> need just to use ONE feature.
>
> Besides, I would imagine that writing a panel version of the poisson model is
> perfectly possible in hansl. [...]
I tend to agree with Jack on this. I can imagine that we might want to
set up a repository for interesting/useful applications of "foreign"
in gretl, but IMO this should be separate from our array of function
packages.
Allin
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