[Gretl-users] gretl 1.8.3 released
The traditional way of getting this news out was via the
gretl-announce mailing list. But I think a lot more people are
subscribed to this list, so at the risk of duplication I'll
post here too.
See http://gretl.sourceforge.net/
8/10/09 version 1.8.3
- Fix bugs 2819633, 2827358, 2828349, 2833434
- $stopwatch: use times() function if available, to include
execution time of child processes
- Add function "mreverse" to reverse rows of a matrix
- Add function "deseas" to deseasonalize a monthly or
quarterly time series using X-12-ARIMA or TRAMO/SEATS
- Remove function "strcmp" as redundant
- Add "sscanf" function
- Add function "pergm" corresponding to the pergm command
- Several fixes and enhancements for interaction with
TRAMO/SEATS and X-12-ARIMA
- Many small GUI fixes
- Add (optional) support for Ox programs via the "foreign"
command
- Ctrl-X in editing windows: cut text, don't exit
- Data importers: add a comment to the imported dataset
saying where it came from
- 3-D graphs: use the wxt terminal in gnuplot if it's
available
- Fix for putting RTF onto clipboard on OS X
- Observation labels ("case markers"): print up to 15
characters of such labels
- Support compaction of hourly (24 hours per day) data
to daily
- Add "set" variable "csv_na" to control the representation
of NA values in CSV output (also GUI selector for same)
- Remove old "set" variable, "protect_lists"
- Help windows: substantial revamp of GUI, plus fixes for
dealing with translated helpfiles
- Add experimental function debugger: new "debug" command
- Stata importer: support current format 114 .dta files
- MS Windows: update the GTK+ stack
- Lists: allow formation of a new list by subtraction of
one list from another
- "omit" command with --auto option: allow specification
of a list of candidates for omission
- fix bug: "smpl --no-missing" was not always purging
missing values in the case of panel data
- fix bug: possible confusion when creating a named list if
the dataset contains a variable named "to"
- fix bug: wrong error message given by "system" command
on encountering missing values
- fix bug: crash in estimating a system via LIML when the
equations are given in TSLS fashion (i.e., y X ; Z)
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University