Re: [Gretl-users] on gini index: maybe a gnuplot issue
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 08.10.2011 18:37, schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, artur bala wrote:
>
>> I'm calculating the Gini index on a very huge dataset.
>> While in the command line the operation hardly takes a couple of seconds,
>> through the GUI (Variable -> Gini coeff) it lasts quite long and gretl
>> crashes with the following message error.
>
> It doesn't actually crash, does it? Just fails to display the
> Lorenz curve graph? That's fixed in CVS: we down-sample if
> there are too many points for gnuplot to handle.
>
You probably thought about that yourself, but are there other contexts
where gretl could give gnuplot more than it can handle?
Yes, that occurred to me too, but I haven't yet tried to do anything
about it.
Allin