[Gretl-users] Re: gretl 2020c released

I put together a short instructional video on how to create thematic maps. Here's the link: https://youtu.be/yctLvI6Y9I0 ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; Sent: 31 July 2020 21:01 To: Gretl users <gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it&gt; Subject: [Gretl-users] gretl 2020c released As usual, see http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ A couple of notes: (1) The 32-bit Windows installer now has "32" in its name: gretl_install-32.exe (and it's no longer the default download for Windows, that's now the 64-bit version). (2) We're no longer updating the legacy OS X builds (for 32-bit Intel and PPC, both requiring X11/Xorg). 2020b was the last gretl release for those platforms. The 64-bit "quartz" build of gretl will run on macOS 10.6 or higher. Here's the change log: 2020-07-31 version 2020c - New feature: thematic maps, supported by new "geoplot" addon; allow loading GeoJSON and ESRI shapefiles as gretl datasets - New feature: offer a choice of plotting styles or themes, via GUI and also via a new "set" variable, graph_theme; plus set the default to the "dark2" theme - Add new bincoeff() function, giving binomial coefficients - Add new sgn() function: returns the sign of its argument - Improve error message in case of invalid gnuplot path - loop: make "quiet" operation the default - Path-searching for inputs: improve the mechanism for storing likely locations based on the opening of scripts - Packaged datasets: show type and size in the GUI, as well as a brief description - GUI data access: add convenience menu items for accessing files supplied by "addons" such as SVAR - bwrite() and bread() functions: support JSON as well as XML for representing gretl bundles - atof() function: allow giving a string-valued series as argument - strlen() function: generalize to allow strings array and string-valued series arguments - pshrink() function: add an optional argument to avoid skipping missing values - mshape() function: make the third argument optional and document the new behavior - Fix bug: failure of negative matrix index (exclusion) when a value of -999 was given - Fix bug: the "restrict" command as applied to VECMs could emit an unwanted newline even given the --silent option - Fix bug: "panel plot" coud crash under certain conditions - Fix bug: ensure greater precision when printing values to 15 or more significant digits - Fix bug: possible error in Spearman's rho for the case of no ties - "fractint" and "hurst" commands: make the estimated fractional difference or exponent accessible via the $result accessor - "xtab" command: fix for the case when one or more of the series to be cross-tabulated are string-valued - "summary" command: don't provide spurious results for string-values series - "scatters" command, time-series variant: try harder to get appropriate time-axis tics - "pkg" command: enable variant "pkg index addons" to update the index of installed "addon" packages - "set" command, "initvals" keyword: clarify the status of this setting (non-persistent) - String-valued series: drop any unused strings when sub- sampling with the --permanent flag, and when saving a sub-sampled dataset via the "store" command - Arrays of strings: support union and intersection via the "||" and "&&" operators respectively - Error reporting: be more specific when the problem is an out-of-bounds index value - Datasets supplied with gretl: include a version of R's "swisspharma" data; enhance the grunfeld panel dataset - User's Guide: incorporate the previously stand-alone MIDAS documentation as two new Guide chapters - MS Windows and macOS builds: update to gnuplot 5.2.6 - macOS: provide 64-bit builds of x13as and tramo-seats - Building gretl on MS Windows: updates and improvements to the auto-generated support files - Update several translations - Numerous small bug-fixes -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/