Re: [Gretl-devel] Gretl and R integration
On Sat, 24 May 2008, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
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.
It seems to me a weird tic in the R language that '.' has no
special syntactical charge in the middle of an identifier -- but
let it not be said that we are lacking in politesse!
BTW, please watch out for some changes in CVS: I'm moving the
R-file writing apparatus from gui_utils.c to a new file,
lib/src/foreign.c, so as to support command-line invocation of
chunks of external script, as per Ignacio's suggestion.
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).
If it works, then hey!
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...
Append has some "issues". That's been on my agenda for a while,
but I'll see if I can do anything that might be useful in this
context.
Allin.