Re: [Gretl-users] using "catch" with "include"

Am 18.08.2016 um 16:07 schrieb Artur T.: > Hey all, > > I am writing a package "A" which makes use of another external gretl > package "B". At some stage I need to load "B" via "include B.gfn". > However, I would like to check first whether B.gfn is already installed > on the machine. If not I want to conduct the "install B.gfn" command. > The problem is that "catch include B.gfn" doesn't seem to work > currently. Is there any way to realize this? > Hi Artur, sorry don't know the answer, but would it really be too much to ask the user to install the necessary packages first? That's the same approach in other programs -- for example in R if some external package is missing you just get an error and have to install them yourself AFAIK. cheers, sven