[Gretl-devel] Re: 'msplitby' quirks

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> > I tested a little bit, and mostly it works fine I think. Some minor > observations: > > - If the rows (or cols) are not dividible by "by", I get an "invalid > arg" error. Perhaps "Matrix not conformable" would be a more informative > error? > > - (Probably not new behavior:) A scalar in place of M does not seem to > be allowed, as in msplitby(2, {1}). Of course this operation does not > look very useful, but it could arise in a corner case in a function or > script. And my understanding is that gretl always tries to allow a > scalar where a 1x1 matrix is valid, and msplitby({2}, {1}) already works. Those two points are now addressed in git.