1:38 p.m.
Dear Allin and Jack,
I frequently get myself writing examples for my colleagues here at work
explaining Gretl's commands and functions. So I realized that this work
could be useful to un-experienced Hansl's users.
My question is: Could I send these examples to our Devel List in order to
insert them (when you'll believe they are appropriate) into the Gretl's
Help?
Best regards,
Henrique Andrade*
*
1:53 p.m.
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Henrique Andrade wrote:
Dear Allin and Jack,
I frequently get myself writing examples for my colleagues here at work
explaining Gretl's commands and functions. So I realized that this work
could be useful to un-experienced Hansl's users.
My question is: Could I send these examples to our Devel List in order to
insert them (when you'll believe they are appropriate) into the Gretl's
Help?
Better still: why not use the gretl wiki, which is a bit neglected at
present?
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
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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4:05 p.m.
Em 5 de novembro de 2012, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti escreveu:
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Henrique Andrade wrote:
Dear Allin and Jack,
>
> I frequently get myself writing examples for my colleagues here at work
> explaining Gretl's commands and functions. So I realized that this work
> could be useful to un-experienced Hansl's users.
>
> My question is: Could I send these examples to our Devel List in order to
> insert them (when you'll believe they are appropriate) into the Gretl's
> Help?
>
Better still: why not use the gretl wiki, which is a bit neglected at
present?
Dear Jack, thanks for answering me. I do believe that wiki is a great way
to exchange knowledge. But I think that we need, in a first moment,
concentrate our efforts trying to make our documentation more complete.
If we start to create too many different sources of resources ("sources of
resources" sounds funny :-)), e.g. wiki, mailing lists, foruns, etc., we can
fragmentize the "gretl-help environment".
The examples I'm willing to introduce in the Help are very simple ones. Let
me give you an example that I used today: the "colnames" function.
<gretl help>
colnames
Output: scalar
Arguments: M (matrix)
s (named list or string)
Attaches names to the columns of the T×k matrix M.
If s is a named list, the column names are copied
from the names of the variables; the list must have
k members. If s is a string, it should contain k
space-separated sub-strings. The return value is 0
on successful completion, non-zero on error. See
also rownames.
*Example:
open australia.gdt
matrix M = {PAU, PUS, IAU, IUS}
colnames(M, "PAU PUS IAU IUS")*
</gretl help>
So I think is something too small too deserve a wiki :-)
Best regards and thanks again for your attention,
Henrique Andrade
9:24 p.m.
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Henrique Andrade wrote:
The examples I'm willing to introduce in the Help are very simple
ones. Let
me give you an example that I used today: the "colnames" function.
<gretl help>
colnames
Output: scalar
Arguments: M (matrix)
s (named list or string)
Attaches names to the columns of the T×k matrix M.
If s is a named list, the column names are copied
from the names of the variables; the list must have
k members. If s is a string, it should contain k
space-separated sub-strings. The return value is 0
on successful completion, non-zero on error. See
also rownames.
*Example:
open australia.gdt
matrix M = {PAU, PUS, IAU, IUS}
colnames(M, "PAU PUS IAU IUS")*
</gretl help>
So I think is something too small too deserve a wiki :-)
In this case, you're welcome to edit the xml files you find in the source
tree under doc/commands. You can use any editor you want (I use emacs),
and the xml syntax is very intuitive. IIRC, you should already have commit
rights to the sourceforge tree, so you can make the changes yourself.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
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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