On 14/05/2026 12:29, Brian Revell wrote: I get to about 5 datapoint values added (in a time series) and Gretl just shuts down. Thanks for the report, Brian, but there's not much we can do before you give us a fuller description of the problem, so we can replicate it here. Is it a GUI thing or does this happen when executing a script? Which version of gretl are you using? Operating system? -- ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/

On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 7:17 AM Brian Revell <bjr.newmail(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > Latest update of Gretl 2026b > Windows 11 O.S. > GUI using Data Add New Variable > Complete Data series 1994 to 2024 but only entering data from 2010. That failed. Gret closed with no error message or warning. Reset Sample to 2010-2024. Add New Variable still crashed the restarted and reloaded dataset in Gretl after 2 entries. > Data numeric 2 decimal places. > > Datafile attached. Thanks, Brian. There isn't actually a "Data/Add New Variable" menu item. Do you mean "Data/Add observations" or "Add/Define new variable"? Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/

OK, got it. And then you're using the GUI data-editor to input values for the new variable? I've tried that with your dataset on Linux and couldn't provoke a problem, but then I tried on Windows 11 and indeed I could provoke a crash. The GUI data-editor seems to be flaky on Windows. I'll investigate further. As a workaround, you could enter values for 2010-2024 like this, via the console: # add a empty series series newvar # set the sample range smpl 2010 2024 newvar = {1.2, 2.3,...,15.6}' The {...} construction gives you a vector in which you can specify15 values, and the trailing apostrophe makes it a column vector, suitable for inserting as the "newvar" values for the 15 observations in the sample. Allin On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 8:04 AM Brian Revell <bjr.newmail(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > True Data Define New Variable. > > On Thu, 14 May 2026 at 12:57, Cottrell, Allin <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 7:17 AM Brian Revell <bjr.newmail(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> > >> > Latest update of Gretl 2026b >> > Windows 11 O.S. >> > GUI using Data Add New Variable >> > Complete Data series 1994 to 2024 but only entering data from 2010. That failed. Gret closed with no error message or warning. Reset Sample to 2010-2024. Add New Variable still crashed the restarted and reloaded dataset in Gretl after 2 entries. >> > Data numeric 2 decimal places. >> > >> > Datafile attached. >> >> Thanks, Brian. There isn't actually a "Data/Add New Variable" menu >> item. Do you mean "Data/Add observations" or "Add/Define new >> variable"? _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/

Follow-up: I think the problem that Brian noted is now fixed in the current gretl snapshot. I'm aware of a few other points where the GUI data-editing "spreadsheet" could do with some more work, but I believe the crash won't happen now. Allin On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 8:20 AM Cottrell, Allin <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > > OK, got it. And then you're using the GUI data-editor to input values > for the new variable? I've tried that with your dataset on Linux and > couldn't provoke a problem, but then I tried on Windows 11 and indeed > I could provoke a crash. The GUI data-editor seems to be flaky on > Windows. I'll investigate further. > > As a workaround, you could enter values for 2010-2024 like this, via > the console: > > # add a empty series > series newvar > # set the sample range > smpl 2010 2024 > newvar = {1.2, 2.3,...,15.6}' > > The {...} construction gives you a vector in which you can specify15 > values, and the trailing apostrophe makes it a column vector, suitable > for inserting as the "newvar" values for the 15 observations in the > sample. > > Allin > > On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 8:04 AM Brian Revell <bjr.newmail(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > > True Data Define New Variable. > > > > On Thu, 14 May 2026 at 12:57, Cottrell, Allin <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 7:17 AM Brian Revell <bjr.newmail(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> > > >> > Latest update of Gretl 2026b > >> > Windows 11 O.S. > >> > GUI using Data Add New Variable > >> > Complete Data series 1994 to 2024 but only entering data from 2010. That failed. Gret closed with no error message or warning. Reset Sample to 2010-2024. Add New Variable still crashed the restarted and reloaded dataset in Gretl after 2 entries. > >> > Data numeric 2 decimal places. > >> > > >> > Datafile attached. > >> > >> Thanks, Brian. There isn't actually a "Data/Add New Variable" menu > >> item. Do you mean "Data/Add observations" or "Add/Define new > >> variable"? _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/