[Gretl-users] crash (was: Re: UDF for geometric mean and the aggregate function)

Am 26.10.2014 14:59, schrieb Sven Schreiber: > Am 26.10.2014 um 14:22 schrieb Pindar: >> Hi there, >> >> I'm interested in calculating a geometric mean inside the aggregate >> function in a panel dataset. >> While my UDF works in plain script the results when using as aggregation >> function are wrong. >> Could you please help me with this issue, here is the hansl script: >> >> function scalar fn_geomean(series X) >> >> catch scalar Y = prodc({X})^(1/nobs(X)) >> if $error<>0 >> Y=NAN >> endif >> return Y >> >> end function >> >> open abdata.gdt >> >> series test = abs(n) >> >> matrix testmean = aggregate(test, const, mean) >> eval mean(test)~ testmean[, 3] >> matrix testgeomean = aggregate(test, const, fn_geomean) >> eval fn_geomean(test) ~ testgeomean[, 3] >> > Most importantly, I get a gretl crash when I insert the line > 'smpl ok(test) --restrict' > after the line where 'test' is created, so that looks like there might > be a deeper issue here. (However, this is with an older snapshot from > August on Windows, haven't tested yet whether it also occurs in newer > versions.) Hi Sven, at least with gretl 1.10.0cvs MS Windows (x86 64) build date 2014-10-18 there is no such crash.