[Gretl-users] Re: gretl 2024a released

As usual, find gretl at gretl.sf.net. The changes: 2024-04-05 version 2024a - gretl "addons": integrate with releases on all platforms - $sysinfo bundle: add gnuplot version as scalar ("gnuplot") - "plot" command: update the help text and apply a fix for the case of showing multiple bands - "tsplots" command with matrix input: don't require a list argument, plot all columns by default - "gnuplot" command with --matrix and --time-series options: show dataset time on x-axis if possible - "gnuplot" command: add --y2axis option to specify placement of a specifed y-variable on a second axis show dataset time on x-axis if possible - "info" command: add --to-file and --from-file options for manipulating the description of a dataset - "clear" command: add --all option to clear both function definitions and all data - "outfile" block: add a --decpoint option to enforce use of decimal point (dot) for output within the block - "freq" command: automatically switch to no binning in case of few distinct values of the series argument - "tsls" command: add a --matrix-diff option for the Hausman test, using the method of Padadopoulos (Econometrics, 2023) - "gmm" command block: support lists of series in extenso on either side of an "orthog" statement - "corrgm", "xcorrgm", "pergm" and "qlrtest" commands: make these commands work properly in a "gpbuild" block - "gmm" command: mark the --two-step and --iterate options as mutually exclusive - "loop foreach": support arrays and bundles that are located inside other arrays or bundles - "pkg install" command: support installation of data file packages in tar.gz format from the gretl server - "pkg query" command: show details of script and data files from a package's "examples" directory, if present - "pkg" command: add "run-sample" action to run the sample script from a specified package - "modeltab" command: add an --options flag to control formatting via the command line - New function fevalb(): a more flexible variant of feval() - New function randstr(): gives a random hexadecimal string of chosen length, to serve as a unique ID - bcheck() function: make the second argument optional - nobs() function: accept a list argument - Fix broken backward compatibility in handling of backslash followed by double-quote in string literals - Fix bug: crash when plotting matrix data with the multiple bands option - Fix bug: restore support for reading JMulTi .dat files - Fix bug: the "smpl" command with --dummy option could end up broken after doing "Save data" in the GUI when there's a sample restriction in place - Fix bug: possible crash when a dbnomics download fails, if invoked via the "data" command - Fix bugs connected with estimation of panel data models via pooled OLS with the --cluster option: the option was being ignored in some cases and the "add" test was not working - Fix bug: the symmetry checker for gretl matrices could fail to flag asymmetry in some cases - Fix bug: typeof() and typename() flagging an error in case no object was found corresponding to the argument - Fix bug: "modeltab" command flagging a spurious error in some cases - geoplot addon: fix obsolete usage of "outfile" - GUI: fix for the "Dataset structure" mechanism when trying to convert from side-by-side time series to panel - GUI: apply some legibility fixes for dark GTK themes - GUI: enable the advertised keystrokes in file "browser" windows (bug #294) - GUI function package editor: add support specific to the editing of markdown help - GUI script editor: improve handling of C-style comments in auto-indentation - GUI: make a newly installed data file package accessible by reopening the relevant window; don't require a restart of gretl - gdt and gdtb data file specification: allow files which contain no actual data series, just the implicit "const" plus metadata (structure and number of observations) - add a suite of unit tests to the gretl source tree -- Allin Cottrell Professor of Economics, Emeritus Wake Forest University _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/