I forwarded the discussion about a Gretl mode in ESS for those who are not on the ESS <http://ess.r-project.org/> mailing list. I'm really happy to see that we'll have soon a Gretl mode in ESS Ahmadou ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:17 AM Subject: Re: [ESS] Gretl mode for ESS To: ahmadou dicko <dicko.ahmadou(a)gmail.com&gt; Cc: ess-help <ess-help(a)stat.math.ethz.ch&gt;, gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu ad> Thank's a lot Vitalie for your quick reply. ad> I have never heard of gretl. How big is the community? And how does it ad> Gretl is a software for econometric analysis ( also made by ad> econometrician ) but you can do some statistical analysis too ad> (even if I prefer R for that). ad> Nowaday, It's widely known among econometrician and it's viable ad> alternative to Stata and Eviews. Yes, I have looked into it a bit closer. It's a pretty mature kit. Detailed manual of 330 pages and very easy to use GUI. Not to mention a huge set of scripts and datasets for Ramanathan, R. (2002) and Greene, W. H. (20xx). It is indeed very focused and pretty much complementary to R in terms of time series. Help system is good. It will be very easy to integrate with ESS help. Argument completion and eldoc are also pretty straightforward as their help pages are well structured and easy to scrap (though it would be good to have an internal function to retrieve arguments and command options directly). Gretl has a pretty nice menu interface. I wonder if there is a way to start a GUI dialog directly from gretl console. Would be nice to automatically generate all gretl menus in emacs such that users familiar with GUI can feel at home. I am pretty convinced now that gretl would be a nice addition to ESS, especially in the light of it being GNU licensed. Vitalie ad> I think that R and Gretl can play nice together because Gretl is ad> really fast (really fast) and have some nice time series library ad> (I just started to write a R package to exchange easily data ad> between R and Gretl https://github.com/dickoa/gretlReadWrite) ad> Comparing to R and I think that the community is smaller but It ad> growing very fast (active mailing list, yearly ad> conference<http://www.gretlconference.org/>and some book about the ad> software). ad> Great !!! ad> Thank's a lot...ESS 12.09 is very nice and I already tried to play ad> with Julia (which is really interesting too). So, I'll look into ad> those files and try to understand how their works ad> Thank's again ad> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: mode >> > to ESS is planned ? >> >> I have never heard of gretl. How big is the community? And how does it >> > There's already a basic gretl >> > mode< >> http://fossies.org/unix/misc/gretl-1.9.9.tar.gz:a/gretl-1.9.9/utils/emacs... latter ess-julia.el, the