Re: [Gretl-users] Possible redundancy of some function packages?

On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Henrique Andrade wrote: > Em 5 de novembro de 2005, Allin escreveu: > > (...) > > I won't go into all the specifics -- although I think you're right -- > but >> rather I'll address the general issue here. >> >> We could really do with some editoral control over the function >> packages. >> Up till now we have been totally "laissez faire", but if the >> packages on >> the server are supposed to be a showcase for adding to gretl's built-in >> functionality they need to be pruned and consolidated. I wonder if >> we could >> assemble a committee of 2 or 3 members to work on this. >> > > I would like to be one of them. I really like to test that kind of > stuff :-) I believe that the Polish team has already done some preparatory work in that direction and it would be a shame it that gets wasted, so in my opinion the best thing would be to join forces. If nobody minds, I'd like to put forward a proposal: Henrique, Sven and someone else (nominated by Tadeusz, Marcin and Paweł) become the package maintenance team, with the following responsibilities: * short run: classify packages with a set of criteria like the ones we've been discussing so far, and make proposals about them (also in the light of the expanding set of features that Hansl has been gaining over the years). For example, Claudia's clustered_ols is IMO quite valuable in terms of example script, while for example I wonder whether we really need "cnumber" any longer, since a possible Hansl equivalent implementation may reduce to the 7-liner <hansl> function scalar cnumber (matrix X "set a variables matrix") matrix A = X ./ sqrt(sumc(X.^2)) matrix En = eigensym(A'A) # compute the roots of AA scalar cn = sqrt(maxc(En)/minc(En)) printf "Condition Number = %12.2f\n",cn return cn end function </hansl> On the other hand, more complex stuff like HIP may become an add-on. Sven's previous message was a very valuable start at this. * medium run: verify that all the packages install and run the provided example script on the widest possible assortment of OSes (various flavours of Windows/Linux/OSX): perhaps, it'd be nice to have someone with some OSX competence in the team, since I assume the people I mentioned can patrol the Linux/Win territory quite well. Of course, I don't mean to force anybody to do things they don't have time for or don't feel like doing, so I don't want anybody to feel obliged. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users