[Gretl-users] Some minor bugs, perhaps.

Hi all, Since it seems that the list is a bit quit today, I thought I should send something for Allin to work on. :) Fred Over time, I have noticed a few items that I think might be bugs of gretl. 1. window list issue. 2. time series data with very long names. 3. lagged variable might not show in the main window. 4. can’t see command log whenever I’m working on .gretl files 5. "Show main statistics" vs. "Show full statistics" option dialog often were hidden behind the icon window when one ask for the summary statistics. 6. If a model was saved with a name that contains “&”, in the icon view, once the session is saved and then if one tries to open that session, the model with name that contains “&” con’t be recovered. Either one can’t save a model with names that contains “&”, or gretl should be able to recover that model, it seems. Here are the details: 1. After a script is opened, or a new one is created, if I save it with a new name, the list of windows that are open when I click on the top right corner of gretl still shows the old name, which can cause confusion. ——————————————————————————————————— 2. With time series data, if the names of two variables that are very long, close to the 31 character limit, and they differ only at the last one or two characters, then a regression of the two with lagged variables will clash with gretl auto created shortened abbreviations. For example, if I run this script first on a new dataset with only the following two variables, # gretl script 1 ols o123456789012345678901234567890 0 o1234567890123456789012345678(-1 to \ -4) o123456789012345678901234567890(-1 to -4) —robust I get this gretl error message: gretl version 2019b-git Current session: 2019-04-12 09:26 ? ols o123456789012345678901234567890 0 o1234567890123456789012345678(-1 to \ -4) o123456789012345678901234567890(-1 to -4) --robust variable 3 duplicated in the command list. Error executing script: halting upon inspecting the dataset, I get: ? list Listing 7 variables: 0) const 1) o123456789012345678901234567890 2) o1234567890123456789012345678 3) o12345678901234567890123456_1 4) o12345678901234567890123456_2 5) o12345678901234567890123456_3 6) o12345678901234567890123456_4 ? labels 3 4 5 6 Listing labels for variables: o12345678901234567890123456_1: = o1234567890123456789012345678(t - 1) o12345678901234567890123456_2: = o1234567890123456789012345678(t - 2) o12345678901234567890123456_3: = o1234567890123456789012345678(t - 3) o12345678901234567890123456_4: = o1234567890123456789012345678(t - 4) I then renamed it down to a shorter names rename 2 o12345678901234567890123456 rename 1 o1234567890123456789012345678 Listing 3 variables: 0) const 1) o1234567890123456789012345678 2) o12345678901234567890123456 ? ols 1 0 o1234567890123456789012345678(-1 to -4) \ o12345678901234567890123456(-1 to -4) variable 3 duplicated in the command list. Error executing script: halting gretl console: type 'help' for a list of commands ? list Listing 7 variables: 0) const 1) o1234567890123456789012345678 2) o12345678901234567890123456 3) o12345678901234567890123456_1 4) o12345678901234567890123456_2 5) o12345678901234567890123456_3 6) o12345678901234567890123456_4 ? labels 3 4 5 6 Listing labels for variables: o12345678901234567890123456_1: = o12345678901234567890123456(t - 1) o12345678901234567890123456_2: = o12345678901234567890123456(t - 2) o12345678901234567890123456_3: = o12345678901234567890123456(t - 3) o12345678901234567890123456_4: = o12345678901234567890123456(t - 4) So it seems that the issue is the inconsistent naming of the lagged variables. ——————————————————————————————————— 3. Sometimes the lagged variable don’t show up in the main window, so that I can’t delete those lagged ones, other then using the list command and then invoke the delete varlist command. ——————————————————————————————————— 4. When I’m working on a .gretl file, if I choose to see the command log, an error would show up. Sometimes it says “Data error”, while other times, it says: "Error opening directory '…’: No such file or directory" Error opening directory '/Volumes/FredMacHD/Users/fred/Documents/UIBE/Resource-Econometric/Dataset/gretl/functions': No such file or directory Error opening directory '/Volumes/FredMacHD/Users/fred/gretl/functions': No such file or directory Error opening directory '/Volumes/FredMacHD/Users/fred/Documents/UIBE/Resource-Econometric/Dataset/gretl/functions': No such file or directory Error opening directory '/Volumes/FredMacHD/Users/fred/gretl/functions': No such file or directory Error opening directory … ——————————————————————————————————— 5. Once I open the icon view, if I double click on the summary icon, often I see nothing is happening. Once I move the icon view to somewhere else, there is the dialog box asking for options to summarize. It was hidden behind the icon view window the whole time. Fred