Re: [Gretl-devel] subsampling and out-of-sample values
On Sun, 6 Dec 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>> I have to say it's quite frustrating, I'm getting
nowhere except
>> uncovering bugs and other limitations. One of the nice things with gretl
>> is that data handling is usually nice and efficient. With panel data my
>> impression is different. And now think about someone without my level of
>> gretl experience...
>
> 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. And I'm telling you what: I'm actually PROUD that we do. I spent
hundreds, possibly thousands of hours of my time trying to contribute to a
high-quality FLOSS econometric package. You did, too. Like Ignacio and
several others. Allin is (deservedly) the hero of a crowd, out there.
Every bug we find and close is a small battle we win.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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