Re: [Gretl-devel] list of lags (again)
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:
I've enabled a couple more more things in relation to lists:
list L = x1 x2 time
("time" does not have to exist already)
list xlist = x1 x2 x3
list L = xpx(xlist)
(L holds squares and cross-products)
What I'm working towards here is the possibility of trashing the
list-parser that still exists in interact.c, for lists provided in
the context of, e.g., estimation commands. I'd like to hand it
all over to genr at some point.
This is all excellent, and certainly improves scripting a lot.
I'm wondering if lists are now mature enough to show up in the GUI: at
this point, someone who only uses the GUI may not even know what a list
is, which is IMO a shame. Some random thoughts follow: it'd be nice to
* highlight one or more variables from the main window, and have "Define
as list" in the right-click menu; a similar item could also go in the
"Add" menu;
* show named lists in the estimation windows, in a separate pane somewhere
(under the variables, maybe?);
* make defined lists visible, maybe together with variables, like Eviews
does for "groups", or in the session icon view.
Other ideas?
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti