[Gretl-users] gretl and octave (was re. periodogram values)
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
[A]lthough fft()/ffti() is nice to have in stock, the fact that
we don't handle complex numbers natively probably means that
multivariate spectra will never be gretl's forte. In fact, for
complex numbers-related tasks, we probably ought to add
matlab/octave to the list of external packages supported via
"foreign".
Good idea, and that is now begun in CVS, The support is similar to
that for Ox: you have the function gretl_dotdir() to get the
user's "dot directory" and the functions gretl_export() and
gretl_loadmat() for matrix input-output.
But I have a few questions for anyone who's more familiar with
these programs than I:
* MS Windows: What's a suitable default path for the octave
executable? (I.e. where does the octave installer want to put
it?) Does the octave installer write a registry entry, and if so,
what's the path to it? Can matlab be used a drop-in substitute
for octave?
* OS X: What's the default path to the octave executable if you
use the OS X package for octave?
Allin.