[Gretl-users] Re: Not able to open .gretl session files in a loop
Am 20.06.2022 um 14:41 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 6:53 AM Sven Schreiber
<svetosch(a)gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 20.06.2022 um 07:59 schrieb Fred Engst:
>> As I said before, I have a need to loop through quit a few .gretl files I get
from my students and to find something inside each of them, for example model outputs
saved in the .gretl files.
...
This sort of thing cannot work.
I understand why that is so, but I think it should be acknowledged that
Fred has a point: He's using the .gretl session files as a natural
storage for stuff that cannot be stored in a gdt file, like estimated
models. If I understand him correctly, the session files are produced
(presumably) in GUI mode by his students. To me this sounds like a nice
and useful workflow for teaching. (I think we discussed this before and
that's why it was made possible to use the "store" command for session
files, for example.)
So I think we should continue to think about a design that would fully
support Fred's approach. (Not urgently, not for the next release, but in
principle.)
thanks
sven