Re: [Gretl-users] on gini index: maybe a gnuplot issue

Am 09.10.2011 18:48, schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote: > >>> You probably thought about that yourself, but are there other contexts >>> where gretl could give gnuplot more than it can handle? >> >> Yes, that occurred to me too, but I haven't yet tried to do anything >> about it. > > And I'd be tempted to add: time is on our side. Even if there were any, > we've been using gnuplot for long enough that I'm confident that they > ought to be pretty unlikely in real life, and probably easily fixable. > I'm not on Windows right now, otherwise I would try to provoke the crash by simply throwing many many data at gnuplot (from within gretl) to produce a scatterplot. And if it were possible to replicate the crash, I would say it should be prevented. But of course you're right, this isn't terribly important.