Allin The current cvs reads the attached file and interprets the date column correctly. The windows snapshot imports the data as a cross-section and ignores the dates column. We had some correspondence earlier about this point in the thread "Open document data import." (8 January). Both current cvs and the windows snapshot import the file correctly. Best Wishes for the new year John 2009/1/13 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt;: -- John C Frain Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:frainj@tcd.ie mailto:frainj@gmail.com

Allin Both the old YYYY-MM-DD format and the DD-MM-YY which I sent you this morning work in open document import. I have a habit of using YYYY-MM-DD as at some stage it appeared to be more consistent in R when read in R in cvs format. Looking at the latest windows snapshot the DD-MM-YY format appears to work while the YYYY-MM-DD does not. John 2009/1/13 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt;: -- John C Frain Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:frainj@tcd.ie mailto:frainj@gmail.com

After uninstalling and deleting Gretl folder, I installed latest Gretl cvs in my two Windows computers. As far as I know, the two column result is the new one. Where is the location for the setting, because I have already uninstalled and deleted the Gretl folder in Program Files folder before installing the new cvs. Do we have to set it manually? Thank you. Yuniarto Hadiwibowo ----- Original Message ---- From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net&gt; To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:08:30 PM Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] pre-release testing for gretl 1.8.0 As the gretl translator for German, I would like to ask the users for their help in testing the new new, compact, way the model results are printed (on screen, in the output windows). Could users please check if everything is ok and understandable in their native language with their favorite models. For the German language, please report any problems on this or the gretl-devel list. For other languages I'm not sure, but I guess these lists are fine for them, too. thanks, sven

I just downloaded the cvs today. It is the English one from http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe I am sure that it is not the translated terms problem. I am not sure about the identical issues, but both computers are running under Windows XP. My laptop has no previous installation of Gretl. I installed previous cvs, not today's cvs. I got two column result at that time. I also uninstalled and deleted the Gretl folder before installing today's cvs. The two column result stays. The one column result comes from my PC that has previous installation (1.7.9). I have uninstalled and then deleted Gretl folder before installing today's cvs, but I still get the one column result. Actually, I mentioned this problem in the list last month, but my concern at that time was the change itself. How to get the new two column result? The installation seems to unable to update all the relevant files. If deleting Gretl folder cannot do that, what and where are the relevant files? Thanks. Yuniarto Hadiwibowo ----- Original Message ---- From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net&gt; To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:00:38 PM Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] pre-release testing for gretl 1.8.0 No it's not user-settable AFAIK, it depends on whether the number of characters in the translated terms makes it possible to have the compact way, and gretl determines this automatically. If the translated terms are too long, you simply get the old-style output (of course with the same information in it). Are you sure your two gretl versions and your two computers are really identical? Maybe one of the snapshots is just a little bit older than the other? What Windows versions are you running on your two computers (xp, vista, whatever)? cheers, sven

After I've checked all the setting, it seems that the local language is the problem. The local setting in my PC is Japan, but my laptop is English. By default, Gretl uses Japanese local language setting for my PC. The result is in English, no translation yet. So, in my confusion I thought that it is English. I don't know if changing the default to English is better. Thank you, I am sorry for this. Another matter is the index variable in loop. The following script works in 1.7.9 and previous cvs, but not in current cvs. The data contains variable named i (although it is not used in this script). If I change the index variable from i to k, it works. It seems that the scope of index variable is changed in the current cvs. I don't know which one is better. <script> open adf_test loop foreach j nc c ct ctt gls --quiet loop foreach i employ prdefl gnp unemp armfrc pop --quiet adf 4 $i --$j --test-down lt_$i$j=$test lp_$i$j=$pvalue adf 4 $i --$j --difference --test-down dt_$i$j=$test dp_$i$j=$pvalue end loop end loop </script> Yuniarto Hadiwibowo ----- Original Message ---- From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:54:39 AM Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] pre-release testing for gretl 1.8.0 I've installed/uninstalled gretl many times on Windows PCs and haven't seen this sort of thing. Are you sure you have the right permissions to perform the uninstall correctly? Allin Cottrell

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote: Yes, good point; it's hardly worth distributing this translation unless/until somebody does some more work on it. Allin.

Hi, I need to run regression using OLS model for about 30 dependent variables on the same set of independent variables. How to set up a loop run to do it at once? All dependent variables are ordered together and their ID are in sequence. Thank you! Regards, Rebecca

Am 29.01.2009 00:44, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti schrieb: I must say I find this $i business confusing; fortunately it's very well documented in the manual! At some point IMHO it may be worthwhile to think about a syntax reform; here it's not clear (to me) what the variable type of the loop index i actually is. A newcomer to gretl would probably think that since i is looping through the list of variables, it's either a series itself, or alternatively the string holding the name of the series ('y1' etc.). But without some black $-magic it really is neither of those apparently. But of course that would be an error-prone reform, I'm sure. cheers, sven

Am 29.01.2009 22:30, Allin Cottrell schrieb: Sure, that's the intuitive part. See I guess it's exactly this double, context-dependent, meaning that I find confusing. I associate $i with string representation, and then I'm all baffled why that (in a foreach loop context) won't give me a string with a series name, but some totally different thing. Couldn't the two meanings be syntactically separated? Just a different character perhaps? thanks, sven

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Yuniarto Hadiwibowo wrote: What error are you seeing with this script? It runs OK for me using current CVS. Allin Cottrell

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Yuniarto Hadiwibowo wrote: Thanks for the clarification, now I see the point. The new behavior is not a a bug, it's a bug-fix! If you have a series named "i" in the dataset, you can't also define a scalar named "i", even if only implicitly, as the index variable for a loop. The old behavior was sloppy and liable to lead to errors. (I got no error because I ran your script using the longley dataset, which does not contain a series "i" although it does contain series with the names used in your ADF tests.) Allin.

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Yuniarto Hadiwibowo wrote: I can replicate this, so should be able to fix it soon. Since this is a crashing bug I'm giving it high priority. Allin.

Twelve minutes between the two messages! :-) -- "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) --

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Yuniarto Hadiwibowo wrote: Thanks for the report. Yes, there's a bug here. I'm working on it now, and will make sure it's fixed for the 1.8.0 release, due out shortly. Allin Cottrell

Hello... I've made some tests and everything looks fine (according to my scripts)... PS. Allin, I know that you're probably very busy and sorry for bothering you. I don't know if you remember that a few days ago I've sent you an private e-mail and is important for me to know your answer. I'd be grateful for this... With regard, Mariusz Poland -----Original Message----- From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Allin Cottrell Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:11 AM To: Gretl users; Gretl development Subject: [Gretl-users] pre-release testing for gretl 1.8.0 Hello all (Sorry for the cross-posting to the two lists, but I wanted to make sure I got everyone). We're now close to the point of releasing gretl 1.8.0, having assembled quite a few new features and a lot of bug fixes. See http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.html . But the most exasperating thing in this business is when you make a new release and immediately get a report of a serious bug and so have to make a further release right away. In this regard, everyone can help. The Windows snapshot, at http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe and the OS X (Intel) snapshot, at http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl.dmg are both up to date with gretl CVS as of January 12. If you can find 15 minutes to run your favourite gretl scripts, or try your favourute gretl GUI operations, then please do, and report any problems on one or other of the mailing lists. If any errors come up, we'll fix them tout de suite, then make gretl 1.8.0 available. Also, if any translators have things they want to update for the forthcoming release, please do that in the next day or two. Thanks! -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users