[Gretl-users] gretl 2020c released
As usual, see http://gretl.sourceforge.net/
A couple of notes:
(1) The 32-bit Windows installer now has "32" in its name:
gretl_install-32.exe (and it's no longer the default download for
Windows, that's now the 64-bit version).
(2) We're no longer updating the legacy OS X builds (for 32-bit
Intel and PPC, both requiring X11/Xorg). 2020b was the last gretl
release for those platforms. The 64-bit "quartz" build of gretl will
run on macOS 10.6 or higher.
Here's the change log:
2020-07-31 version 2020c
- New feature: thematic maps, supported by new "geoplot"
addon; allow loading GeoJSON and ESRI shapefiles as
gretl datasets
- New feature: offer a choice of plotting styles or themes,
via GUI and also via a new "set" variable, graph_theme;
plus set the default to the "dark2" theme
- Add new bincoeff() function, giving binomial coefficients
- Add new sgn() function: returns the sign of its argument
- Improve error message in case of invalid gnuplot path
- loop: make "quiet" operation the default
- Path-searching for inputs: improve the mechanism for
storing likely locations based on the opening of scripts
- Packaged datasets: show type and size in the GUI, as well
as a brief description
- GUI data access: add convenience menu items for accessing
files supplied by "addons" such as SVAR
- bwrite() and bread() functions: support JSON as well as
XML for representing gretl bundles
- atof() function: allow giving a string-valued series as
argument
- strlen() function: generalize to allow strings array and
string-valued series arguments
- pshrink() function: add an optional argument to avoid
skipping missing values
- mshape() function: make the third argument optional and
document the new behavior
- Fix bug: failure of negative matrix index (exclusion)
when a value of -999 was given
- Fix bug: the "restrict" command as applied to VECMs could
emit an unwanted newline even given the --silent option
- Fix bug: "panel plot" coud crash under certain conditions
- Fix bug: ensure greater precision when printing values
to 15 or more significant digits
- Fix bug: possible error in Spearman's rho for the case of
no ties
- "fractint" and "hurst" commands: make the estimated
fractional difference or exponent accessible via the
$result accessor
- "xtab" command: fix for the case when one or more of the
series to be cross-tabulated are string-valued
- "summary" command: don't provide spurious results for
string-values series
- "scatters" command, time-series variant: try harder to get
appropriate time-axis tics
- "pkg" command: enable variant "pkg index addons" to update
the index of installed "addon" packages
- "set" command, "initvals" keyword: clarify the status of
this setting (non-persistent)
- String-valued series: drop any unused strings when sub-
sampling with the --permanent flag, and when saving a
sub-sampled dataset via the "store" command
- Arrays of strings: support union and intersection via the
"||" and "&&" operators respectively
- Error reporting: be more specific when the problem is an
out-of-bounds index value
- Datasets supplied with gretl: include a version of R's
"swisspharma" data; enhance the grunfeld panel dataset
- User's Guide: incorporate the previously stand-alone MIDAS
documentation as two new Guide chapters
- MS Windows and macOS builds: update to gnuplot 5.2.6
- macOS: provide 64-bit builds of x13as and tramo-seats
- Building gretl on MS Windows: updates and improvements to
the auto-generated support files
- Update several translations
- Numerous small bug-fixes
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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University