Hello all,

The freq command (menu driven or console or in script) "does not work" with either cross-section or time series data.

I use gretl 2015e-git build 2015-12-14  (windows 7)

It does not bin the data. It counts every single observation.

Also, it ignores - at least - the options --nbins, --min --binwidth

Below an example from a simple script file

gretl version 2015e-git
Current session: 2015-12-16 11:10

? nulldata 500
periodicity: 1, maxobs: 500
observations range: 1 to 500
? setobs 1 1 --cross-section
Full data range: 1 - 500 (n = 500)

? xt = normal()
Generated series xt (ID 2)
? freq xt

Frequency distribution for xt, obs 1-500

frequency rel. cum.

-3.0579 1 0.20% 0.20%
-2.92753 1 0.20% 0.40%
-2.52678 1 0.20% 0.60%
-2.41767 1 0.20% 0.80%
-2.39102 1 0.20% 1.00%
-2.14408 1 0.20% 1.20%
-2.14142 1 0.20% 1.40%
-2.13868 1 0.20% 1.60%
-2.12529 1 0.20% 1.80%
-2.08038 1 0.20% 2.00%
-2.04517 1 0.20% 2.20%
-2.00888 1 0.20% 2.40%
-2.00069 1 0.20% 2.60%
-1.899 1 0.20% 2.80%
-1.89824 1 0.20% 3.00%
-1.89617 1 0.20% 3.20%
-1.84248 1 0.20% 3.40%
-1.81697 1 0.20% 3.60%
-1.8133 1 0.20% 3.80%
-1.80632 1 0.20% 4.00%
-1.79576 1 0.20% 4.20%
-1.77199 1 0.20% 4.40%
-1.73471 1 0.20% 4.60%
-1.72761 1 0.20% 4.80%
-1.72554 1 0.20% 5.00%

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Yiannis