[Gretl-devel] Re: 'msplitby' quirks

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 12.08.2021 um 17:28 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> 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. > > thanks for the quick reaction! I documented the new features in git. Please take a look.