Re: [Gretl-devel] A way to read RData files in gretl
Am 25.09.2017 um 00:29 schrieb oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net:
Dear All,
During the recent times
there were several threads
on importing RData files into gretl
The attachment contains a function
to open RData files in gretl
In contrast to the native foreign
importers it requires R installed
(not a strong requirement, at least
on linux, since R is included into
dependencies list for building gretl)
Thanks Oleh, that sounds very good.
Here is a general comment to all: I think that maybe it is time to
reconsider the policy that gretl function packages must not depend on R.
R has become so widespread, and also we have in gretl the very nice
possibility to define and call your own R functions directly (see
section 38.7 of the user guide), that it almost seems silly not to
leverage all the potential. Even Eviews has been doing it for a while
already.
Having said that, I think the package author would have to do quite a
bit of error-catching in her/his package, because otherwise a function
package that uses R in the background could potentially fail for reasons
that will look very mysterious. I think the package moderators (myself
included) would have to watch out for this.
But of course this is just the start of the discussion.
cheers,
sven