[Gretl-devel] oxgauss

Hi, I would like to ask whether it's worthwhile to enable the OxGauss functionality in combination with gretl's Ox support. (OxGauss means that Ox can run many existing Gauss programs.) It seems to me that basic support would be relatively simple, since only a -g switch is needed; so for running a Gauss program 'mygauss.prg' gretl would need to call: <path/to/>oxl -g mygauss.prg (instead of '<path/to/>oxl myox.ox') I guess a further issue would be how to pass matrices to what would then be Gauss code, but note that even without it I think it would already be useful to be able to do: <gretl-script> store @dotdir/mydata.dat --jmulti # jmulti's format should be same as Gauss (?) foreign language=OxGauss T = 100; # ugly hardcoding, but not the point here k = 2; load datamatrix[T,2] = mydata.dat; # hope OxGauss would find this print "yeah"; end foreign </gretl-script> In terms of user interface I tend to think that no separate script class for Gauss code (executed via OxGauss) should be introduced, since Gauss in my view is a little obsolete. But maybe opinions differ on that. BTW, the background in my case is to build wrappers around the break test codes of Qu&Perron (Econometrica 2007) or Bai&Perron etc. which are only available in Gauss, a little lengthy, and also I'm not sure whether their license would allow porting. thanks, sven