Re: [Gretl-users] shell_ok question: thanks

On Sat, 10 Oct 2015, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote: [...] Thanks for the positive comments on gretl that I have ellipsized. (But you're changing the thread topic once again!) I can agree with that. Anything gretl can do on Windows it should be able to do on Linux -- and also vice versa, since it seems that (like it or not) most gretl users are still on Windows. However, it seems to me that you just "got lucky" in being able to produce plots via R, running under gretl's "foreign" apparatus on Windows XP. I wouldn't expect this to work in general on any platform -- it's seriously stretching what "foreign" can do, and I would again suggest that you try a different approach, please! (I'd also be interested to know if after this plotting episode on XP you end up with zombie background processes running, as I did after trying your hansl script on Fedora Linux: it "worked" insofar as it put an R plot on screen, but it messed up the process table.) Allin Cottrell