[Gretl-users] Working with json-files -- an example

Hi all, I thought this could be of interest to some of you. Gretl has the built-in functions jsonget() and jsongetb() which is very nice! I wasn't aware about json-files until recently. At work we use these files (apart from yaml-files) as definition files defining specific parameters or variables of interest globally. Imagine you have a model framework and you don't want to change any parameter in your generically written code as it just works and any further change may break it. Instead, you JUST pass json-files to the framework which include all relevant information such as the list of variables and eventual manipulations of these, specific settings on the sample, choice of the estimator etc. You can easily put all these things into json-files. I've uploaded an example on how to use this with gretl here: https://github.com/atecon/json_gretl Best, Artur