I just ran the example script BAYES_DFM.m from Koop (
http://personal.strath.ac.uk/gary.koop/Factor_Models.zip) using Octave
(latest version 3.6.3 on ubuntu) and it seems to work.
Additionally, I ran a script provided by Veredas/Luciani which one can find
here:
http://www.ecares.org/ecare/personal/veredas$/Welcome_files/LucianiVereda...
To run it on Octave one needs to install the package "signal" for octave
and change the line "[Fhat0,eigval]=svd(w*y'*y);" in the file
"ML_nfactors.m" to "[Fhat0,eigval,test]=svd (w*y'*y);" where test
holds the
third scalar.
It also seems to run up to a point and produces some results and a figure,
but further adjustment for Octave seems to be needed.
But overall it seems that one can you these mentioned packages with Octave
and/or gretl using the foreign-block.
I will experiment a bit with it. If I find some further information, I'll
let you know.
Artur
2012/9/21 Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it>
 On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, artur tarassow wrote:
  Thank you for this hint, Peter. I'll have a look on their code.
>
 I'm quite interested in this, although I'm very severely time-constrained
 in this period. If you could share with me (and publicly on the mailing
 list if you want) your work I'd be very grateful.
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  Università Politecnica delle Marche
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