Dear Gretl Team,

When we use the "foreign" function and the foreign script has errors, Gretl freezes. Please take a look at the following example:

<hansl>

open australia.gdt

foreign language=R --send-data

gretldata

end foreign

</hansl>

It works just fine. Now let's generate an intentional error using "gretldat" instead of "gretldata":

<hansl>

open australia.gdt

foreign language=R --send-data

gretldat

end foreign

</hansl>

On a Windows PC machine the only way to make things go back to normality is using Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL) to finish Rterm. When we do this Gretl comes back to life [;-)] and shows us the following message:

"Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'gretldat' not found

Error executing script: halting"

Best regards,

Henrique Andrade