On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
 I have just started teaching a basic econometric class.
 I found an error in gretl GUI: when you have a qualitative variable, you 
 obtain the dummies for this variable and try to define a new variable, for 
 example multiplying one of the dummies by another variable (quantitative or 
 dummy from other qualitative). You will go now to the menu "Add->Define new 
 variable", you write a new name and a '=' but now if you click on the name
of 
 the dummy for building the operation, the name written into the dialog is the 
 name of the original (qualitative), not the name of the dummy. 
OK, I see what you mean. That's now fixed in git, and the fix will be 
in the 2021d release, due out soon.
 The suggestion is about the scatterplot. Normally, when I start a new
class 
 on Econometrics, I like to show the scatterplot of two variables for 
 illustrating the linear relationship. But it is a litte bit uncomfortable 
 that the gretl scatterplot by default shows the OLS estimated line. I suggest 
 to put this line as an option, may be in the same dialog in which you have to 
 select the variable for X axis. 
In git there's now a checkbox in that dialog, labeled "Suppress fitted 
line". If you check that box, no fitted line will be shown. I put the 
choice in that form (as opposed to "Show fitted line") because the 
current default is to show a linear fit only if the slope is 
significant at the 10 percent level. The GUI "Suppress..." check-box 
corresponds to the scriptable option --fit=none.
Allin