Re: [Gretl-devel] A question on eligibility of foreign languages interface packages
Dear Sven,
Thanks for hopeful comment.
First of all I mean R and Octave,
since the are as GNU as Gretl,
and the only marginal costs are
several (dozens) seconds to install.
I plan to include install.packages(c("pkg1","pkg2",....)
into the sample script, so the user has only
to install R and run the sample script once.
Besides, after Octave 4, Windows users don't
have to torture themselves: just download octave.exe
and enjoy!
Oleh
4 жовтня 2015, 21:40:51, від "Sven Schreiber" <svetosch(a)gmx.net>:
Am 04.10.2015 um 20:07 schrieb oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net:
> Dear all!
> I wrote an R interface for panel data poisson regression for my post-graduate
> econometrics classes. It can do slightly more than the original R
> function (from {pglm}): it computes fixed effects and average marginal effects.
>
> If it were only hansl work, I'd uploaded it to the server.
> To my current knowledge, there are no official Gretl
> packages providing interfaces to foreign functions.
> Are such packages admissible?
>
Good question. One problem would be that an example script would not run
on a typical gretl installation, because one cannot presume the presence
of the respective foreign language.
OTOH there are certainly very useful applications for such packages, so
it would be a pity to ban them.
Perhaps a solution would be that somebody serves as a testing/contact
person for each foreign language. This person would have to check the
soundness of the example script (and the whole package) on his system.
(I would add "her" as an alternative to "his", but then I could also
write "Claudia" directly, I guess.)
cheers,
sven
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