Re: [Gretl-devel] Gretl and R integration

While we're on this: I just committed a few changes, mostly cosmetic, to the "export from R" machine: 1) the function gretl_export and the string gretl_dotdir were renamed to gretl.export and gretl.dotdir. I'm no R export, but it looks like more polite to use the dot rather than the underscore in R-land. 2) we had a naming problem when exporting a time-seried object with just one variable; now fixed (a bit clumsily, but as I said I'm no R expert). We have an open problem: if some sort of subsampling is in effect on the gretl side, mostl likely the append mechanism won't work. This is due to the fact that I haven't been able to figure out how to stuff into the csv file row labels in a format that that gretl can digest, so I removed row labels altogether. An alternative possibility would be to intervene on the gretl side: in fact, the script below (which has nothing to do with R interaction _per se_) won't work <script> nulldata 10 x = normal() smpl +1 -1 store @dotdir/foo.csv delete x append @dotdir/foo.csv </script> unless, of course, you get rid of the "smpl" command on line 3. I don't know if this is actually a problem. It certainly makes things more difficult when it comes to R interaction. Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Economia Università Politecnica delle Marche r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti