Re: [Gretl-devel] subsampling and out-of-sample values
Am 06.12.2015 um 17:20 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Sun, 6 Dec 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>> But you're not just any other gretl user. You're a
gretl developer, and
>> this is the devel-list. Bug eradication is one of our jobs.
>
> Today I didn't want to be a developer, I just wanted to use gretl. The
> reason I was posting to the devel list is because of what I found.
Handling panel datasets is objectively difficult. With all the
limitations and bugs you exposed, I still believe we're _leaps and
bounds_ above R in that respect (which I consider as our closest
competitor). "But Stata", I hear you say. OK, that's what they charge
you money for: they do their debugging behind closed doors. We do ours
in public. That's the "O" in FLOSS.
Actually I was going to say not Stata, but Python (numpy/scipy/pandas
etc.). Since Numpy is built on higher dimensional arrays it's relatively
easy to handle datasets with more than one index (i,t). It is actually
ironic that somebody like you who likes to do everything on the CLI is
using gretl/hansl for that. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you are, but
"objectively" I think it's because of historical path dependence.
I'm one of the people who like a mixture of menu-driven work for
one-time manipulations (e.g. mark as discrete) and scripting for the
other stuff. That's one of the reasons why I'm using gretl.
-sven