Re: [Gretl-users] crash (was: Re: UDF for geometric mean and the aggregate function)

Am 26.10.2014 um 19:15 schrieb Pindar: > Am 26.10.2014 14:59, schrieb Sven Schreiber: >> Am 26.10.2014 um 14:22 schrieb Pindar: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I'm interested in calculating a geometric mean inside the aggregate >>> function in a panel dataset. >>> While my UDF works in plain script the results when using as aggregation >>> function are wrong. >>> Could you please help me with this issue, here is the hansl script: >>> >>> function scalar fn_geomean(series X) >>> >>> catch scalar Y = prodc({X})^(1/nobs(X)) >>> if $error<>0 >>> Y=NAN >>> endif >>> return Y >>> >>> end function >>> >>> open abdata.gdt >>> >>> series test = abs(n) >>> >>> matrix testmean = aggregate(test, const, mean) >>> eval mean(test)~ testmean[, 3] >>> matrix testgeomean = aggregate(test, const, fn_geomean) >>> eval fn_geomean(test) ~ testgeomean[, 3] >>> >> Most importantly, I get a gretl crash when I insert the line >> 'smpl ok(test) --restrict' >> after the line where 'test' is created, so that looks like there might >> be a deeper issue here. (However, this is with an older snapshot from >> August on Windows, haven't tested yet whether it also occurs in newer >> versions.) > > Hi Sven, > > at least with gretl 1.10.0cvs MS Windows (x86 64) build date 2014-10-18 > there is no such crash. I still get the crash with the latest snapshot on Windows 8 (32bit I think). Recipe as described above with the 'smpl ok(test) --restrict' line.