[Gretl-users] Re: Implementing latest developments in forecasting
Am 05.03.2026 um 10:32 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On 05/03/2026 07:17, ramakrishnasalagrama(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> New techniques are emerging quickly and a general user wanted to test these
techniques quickly through some gui based software and gretl has plenty of potential in
this regard. For example, the time series package "prophet" by facebook one
wanted to use but there is no option of doing this in gretl. So instead of writing the
entire code from the ground up, we can integrate python into gretl and run the function in
the background and show the results in gretl. SPSS is doing the same for some functions.
It has support for R and Python. Any ideas?
Gretl has had the ability to interact with other software forever.
Just to add to that in the GUI context: the package "random_forest" for
gretl (by Allin) does exactly that, using R in the background. For
similar cases, somebody has to write (and document) the wrapper
function(s), however. Those wrappers would be written in gretl's
scripting language hansl. That's something where AI tools could surely
help.
(I've heard that other open source projects are flooded with rubbish AI
pseudo contributions, but that's not the case for gretl yet.)
cheers
sven