On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Olivo Victor wrote:
Hello:
I receive the error message in the attached picture whenever I try
to estimate a SVAR in some sessions files where I have already
estimated an saved a SVAR model. Do you know why?
Here's what I think is happening: when gretl saves your session, it
saves all the functions that were active at the time, including any
functions supplied by SVAR, in a sort of "pseudo-package" named
functions.xml.
Then if you reopen the session and do "include SVAR.gfn" gretl
reckons you're trying to overwrite the functions already in memory
(restored from the session file) with some alien versions, and
doesn't like that.
I think this should probably be considered a bug, and we'll think
about how best to fix it, but as a workaround, you could try _not_
doing "include SVAR.gfn" after reopening the session file, since the
SVAR functions should in fact be present already.
Allin Cottrell