2011-04-22 version 1.9.5
- Add new translation: Greek (Manolis Tzagarakis and Ioannis Venetis)
- When building against gtk3, put the plugins into LIBDIR/gretl-gtk3
- "foreign" command: enable the --send-data option for Octave, in
which case the gretl dataset is pre-loaded as a matrix named
"gretldata"
- "coint2" (Johansen test): print the log-likelihood, plus improve the
printing of the Pi matrix when exogenous regressors are present
- "coint2": add a --silent option
- VARs: add $fevd accessor to get the forecast error variance
decomposition as a matrix; also add GUI access to forecast variance
decomposition plots
- VECMs: add $vecGamma accessor to get the Gamma matrices (coefficients
on the differences of the system variables) in standard format, plus
$evals accessor to get the eigenvalues used in computing the trace
test
- "tobit" command: add options to specify left- and/or right-
censoring; also add --robust option
- gnuplot (command and GUI): add option to plot fitted cubic
- GUI plot dialog: add option to draw arrows on a graph
- GUI forecast dialog, for cross-sectional data: give option of showing
confidence interval for mean Y rather than actual Y
- Fix a small memory leak when opening an *.asc data file
- New function colname(): retrieve a column name from a matrix
- New function eigsolve(): solves generalized eigenvalue problem
- New function NRmax(): Newton-Raphson maximizer
- New model accessors with string values: $depvar for the name of the
dependent variable, and $command for the command word used
- Matrix "division": give the operators "\" and "/" the same semantics
as in Octave/Matlab (left and right division)
- Remove the FGLS "arch" command from the GUI and add a deprecating
note to its help text
- Lag specification for regressors (e.g. "foo(-1 to -2)"): the name of
a list can now be substituted for the name of a series
- quantile() function: allow a vector for the second argument when the
first argument is a matrix
- Copy data to clipboard in GUI: remove limitation of 8 series max
- "difftest" command: record $test and $pvalue
- Fix bug: wrong out-of-sample forecasts for ARMA models with seasonal
MA terms
- Fix bug: wrong handling of string fields in ODBC data import
- Fix bug: spurious "unmatched 'if'" error under some conditions
- Fix bug: incorrect handling of observation markers in context of
scatter plot "with factor separation"
- Fix bug: transposition not being done in expressions of the form
matrix m = $accessor[range]', with trailing transpose symbol
- Fix bug: usable observations could be omitted when compacting from
daily to weekly frequency, if the daily data contained "hidden"
missing observations
- Fix bug 3285196 (respect indicated encoding when importing SPSS data)
2011-02-24 version 1.9.4
- Change the default random number generator from GLib's
implementation of the Mersenne Twister to the SIMD-oriented Fast
Mersenne Twister
- Introduce "addons": approved function packages that are represented
in the GUI menus
- Add an --accessors option to the "varlist" command, to expose the
list of currently available accessor ("dollar") variables
- Add more panel data graphing options -- time-series of group means
and boxplots by group -- and redesign the GUI for panel plots
- GUI code: modify to allow building against gtk3, with a configure
option --enable-gtk3
- GUI icon view: provide a graphical representation for saved
"bundles"
- GUI dialog for calling user-defined functions: several improvements
- GUI access to X-12-ARIMA: give option of writing and editing x12a
.spc file
- GUI test-statistic calculator: fix a bug in the one-variance test
- New accessor, $vma: retrieves the vector moving average form of a
VAR or VECM
- New function, inlist(): gives the position of a series within a
named list or zero if the series is not present
- New function, isconst(): determines whether a series or vector has
a constant value, and optionally tests for either time-invariance
or cross-sectional invariance for panel-data series
- New function, strsub(): substitutes a specified replacement for a
specified sub-string in its first (string) argument
- New function, ngetenv(): gets the numerical value of variable in
the environment
- "estimate" command: document the --quiet flag; and also enable the
--quiet option for "system"
- "summary" command: add an option to print summary stats for the
columns of a named matrix
- "outfile" command: add facility to redirect output to stderr or
stdout
- "setobs" command: add option to attach observation labels from a
named file
- "heckit" command: switch to use of analytical Hessian for the
covariance matrix
- New function, errmsg(): returns the gretl error message associated
with a given integer error code
- New function, rownames(): complements the colnames() function for
matrices
- New function mrls(); implements restricted least squares estimation
for data in matrix form
- The sdc() function (column standard deviations): add an optional
second argument to control the divisor
- New "set" variable, matrix_mask, which can be used to control the
included observations when constructing matrices from series
- Accessors $test and $pvalue: generalize to allow matrix values
(e.g. from the coint2 command); also ensure that these values get
recorded when using "restrict" in connection with a system
estimator such as SUR
- "catch" modifier for commands: make this catch a wider range of
errors
- Functions corr(), cov() and fcstats(): accept two vector arguments
in place of two series
- Allow deletion of local matrices within functions
- Remove deprecated aliases "noecho" and "seed"
- Remove redundant function "makemask"
- Fix some memory leaks in the gretl GUI
- Storage of data in gdt files: increase the precision for derived
series such as logs
- Fix: reset model count on exit from user-defined functions
- Fix bug: incorrect parsing of command line containing a filename
that includes left and/or right parentheses
- Fix bug: the $ec accessor for Error Correction terms produced bad
results for VECMs where the loadings ("alpha") terms were estimated
subject to restrictions
- Fix bug: estimates could get out of order for some equation systems
if the constant was not given in first place among the regressors
- Fix bug: the "diff" command applied to a lead of a series could
produce spurious values with panel data
- Fix bug: segfault with nested loops when the outer loop resamples
the dataset and the inner one generates a series
- Fix bug: the function isnull() got broken when the argument is the
name of a string variable
- Fix bug: incorrect parsing of ARIMA command with "gappy" AR lags
specification, e.g. "arima {1 4 5} 1 1 ; y"
- Fix bug: the $unit accessor for panel data got broken
- Fix bug: the $kalman_t accessor was not working correctly for the
case of a filter that employs time-varying matrices
- Fix bug: when compacting a dataset using the end-of-period option,
one usable observation might be discarded
- Fix bugs 3180774 and 3183721 (64-bit build issues)
- MS Windows: update GTK stack and gnuplot
2010-11-29 version 1.9.3
- New estimation command "biprobit" (bivariate probit)
- New panel unit-root command "levinlin"
- Add help text for "dpanel"
- "restrict" command: enable the --full option for single-equation
models estimated via OLS (makes the restricted estimates available
as the "last model")
- "restrict" and "estimate" for equation systems: don't insist on a
system-name argument, but allow a default of the last model
(provided it was a system)
- GUI graphs: allow option of replacing the original graph with a
zoomed view
- Panel time-series graphs in GUI: add another format option and try
to use date information if available
- lrvar function: allow vector argument in place of series
- Iterated GMM: raise default maximum iterations to 250, and add a
new "set" variable, "gmm_maxiter"
- Fix bug 3105271
- Fix bug: crash in lapack in case the number of instruments exceeds
the number of observations in tsls
- Fix bug: recent breakage in quantreg command for the case of
multiple tau values
- Fix bug: ensure that the main window gets updated when series are
deleted via the console
- Fix bug: don't show an excessively long list of series in the
dialog box for confirming deletion of series
- Fix bug: creation of matrices from data series in a loop which
changes the sub-sample via --restrict
- Fix bug: setting "halt_on_error" off should not suppress printing
of error messages
2010-11-03 version 1.9.2
- New command "fractint" (fractional integration test)
- The "pergm" command no longer does fractional integration testing
as a side-effect
- The "open" command now supports http to get a data file (of any
supported format) directly from the internet
- "kalman": allow a constant term in the state transition equation
- "modprint" command: allow a string literal for the second argument;
support both comma- and space-separation of parameter names
- "dataset expand" command: add an "interp" modifier to use
interpolation rather than repetition of values; also remove the
option of going directly from annual to monthly frequency
- "heckit" command: enable the --robust option for QML standard
errors and the --quiet option
- "mahal" command: add a --quiet option
- "arima" command: add new option --save-ehat
- pdf function: support the poisson and binomial distributions
(giving the probability mass)
- New function invmills() to get the inverse Mills ratio
- New function bwfilt() to compute the Butterworth filter (thanks go
to D.S.G. Pollock), plus GUI access under /Variable/Filter
(time-series data only)
- New function polyfit() to obtain a polynomial trend line
- New function chowlin() to perform Chow-Lin interpolation of
higher-frequency data
- New function varsimul() to simulate VARs
- New accessor $mnl_probs to get the estimated outcome probabilities
for a multinomial logit model (plus GUI access under the Analysis
menu in the model window)
- GUI interface to X-12-ARIMA: add more options to control the
program's behavior
- GUI model specification dialog: add a "genr" button
- GUI, main window toolbar: add a button for direct access to native
gretl databases
- Fix for multinomial logit: correct bias in favor of the base case
in the reported fitted values ($yhat)
- Fix VAR forecasts: ensure consistency in exactly where a dynamic
forecast starts
- Fix bug 3021540 (sorting dataset)
- Fix bug 3021854 (spreadsheet import with no numeric data)
- Fix bug 3050710 (build process: LDFLAGS not respected)
- Fix bug 3054932 (build process: libdir not used)
- Fix bug 3074946 (specific MA lags not remembered in ARMA GUI)
- Fix bug 3082926 (crash or bad session file when saving a session
containing models with missing observations)
- Fix crashing bug in Wilcoxon signed rank test
- Fix bug: adf test with --gls option: don't use too many pre-sample
values for the detrending regression
- Fix bug: crash in GUI when estimation of a restricted VECM was not
successfully completed
- Fix for OS X: we now support Ctrl-click as equivalent to
right-click (for popup menus, etc.)
- Fix for finding user's customized LaTeX preamble file
- Fix: more rigorous detection of whether TeX output is PDF rather
than DVI
- Fix: when compacting a dataset, some values that should be missing
were appearing as zero
- Traditional Chinese locale: encode text to CP950 for EMF files via
gnuplot
- Drag-and-drop onto gretl main window: support database files (gretl
native, RATS or PcGive) as well as regular data files
- Graphs in GUI: for plots that don't support the full graph editor,
add a font selector
- Build: require libgmp (no longer an optional extra)
- Internals: modify GUI sources to ensure that gretl will build OK
with the forthcoming GTK+ 3.0
- MS Windows: update Inno installer and add the officially recognized
translations
2010-06-24 version 1.9.1
- New command: "makepkg", for command-line creation of gretl function
packages (.gfn files)
- pdf, cdf and pvalue functions: add support for the Generalized
Error distribution
- "dataset" command: add new sub-command, "renumber", for moving a
series to a new position
- wls: amend the criterion for complaining that the weights are all
zero
- logit/probit: correct ordering of estimates when the constant is
not first in the supplied list of regressors
- Reading gdt data files: don't stop if a denormalized tiny value is
found: accept what the C library gives and ignore errno
- Reinstate --basque start-up option for GUI program
- Fix for printing of month names on time-series plots in locales
with multi-byte characters
- OS X: use the native Mac calculator app for gretl's calculator
toolbar item by default
- GUI: add mechanism for defining named lists, and for setting the
main window selection from a chosen list
- GUI: "Edit attributes" (of series) dialog: add option to change the
position of a series in the dataset
- GUI model selection dialog: implement re-ordering of regressors via
right-click
- GUI, right-click popup in main window: on selecting the correlation
matrix option, give the user a chance to insist on a uniform sample
for the correlations
- Internals: new, improved code for calulating the inverse Mills
ratio (probit, heckit)
- API documentation: take this a step further, though it's still
radically incomplete
- Remove the old genpois function
2010-05-02 version 1.9.0
- New command: "duration", for estimation of parametric duration
models (e.g. Weibull)
- New command: "negbin", for estimation of count data models using
the Negative Binomial distribution
- poisson regression: add overdispersion test and also --robust
option to get a QML covariance matrix
- New command modifier, "catch" to catch errors and permit
continuation of script execution
- "labels" command: add options to write variable labels to file, and
to read labels from file
- Consolidate commands: the old "graph" and "plot" commands (ASCII
graphics) are unified in "textplot"
- Enable full-text search of "online" help files
- Enable help for specific "settable" variables, as in "help set
lbfgs"
- "mread": search the gretl working directory if the file is not
found at first
- "dataset sortby": allow the use of a list to specify multiple sort
keys
- ODBC import: enable extraction of multiple data series per SQL
query
- ODBC: enable support in the binary packages for OS X
- Observation labels: permit non-ASCII UTF-8 characters
- Export of data to R, interactively: add a message confirming that
the export worked
- "foreign" code blocks: add support for GNU Octave
- GUI: add export/import of variable labels
- GUI: enable choice of ordering for Cholesky decomposition for VAR
impulse response plots
- GUI graph editor: add option to show a grid; add facility to
display highlight bars in time-series graphs, e.g. NBER recession
dates
- Filter functions movavg, bkfilt and hpfilt: offer greater control
via additional optional arguments
- Add new functions, digamma, kdensity, monthlen and epochday (the
latter two are calendrical)
- Add new built-in constant: "macheps" gets the machine precision
- OS X package: add icons and associations for gretl data, script and
session files
- Add compile-time option to use openmp for multi-threaded matrix
multiplication
- Fix bug: crash on exact collinearity when estimating a system of
equations
- Fix bug: broken test output in tsls when the matrix of instruments
is near to rank-deficient
- Fix bug: errors in Exponential Moving Average in GUI
- Fix bug: non-ASCII characters not handled in function package
upload to server
- Fix bug: double normal cdf did not handle correctly some corner
cases
- Fix bugs 2944000, 2956109
- Fix font-encoding issues on MS Windows: session-names with
non-ASCII characters were not appearing in the gretl title bar; and
the encoding was getting broken between copy and paste, e.g. in
script windows
- Fix bug in Hausman test after tsls: ensure the sample size is
consistent
- Fix integer overflow bug in Breusch-Pagan poolability test
- Graphing via gnuplot: require version >= 4.2.0
2010-01-24 version 1.8.7
- GUI enhancement: add apparatus to help keep track of gretl windows
- GUI menus: clean-up and consolidation
- New command: "qqplot" (Quantile-Quantile plots)
- Normal random samples: implement the Ziggurat method
- "dataset" command: document the "clear" keyword
- "rmplot" command: save $test and $pvalue
- "restrict" with --bootstrap option: record $test and $pvalue
- "corrgm" and "xcorrgm": allow the lag order to be given as a named
scalar variable
- VECMs: add $ec accessor
- VARs: remove $vcv accessor
- VARs and VECMs: enable accessors $df, $ncoeff and $xtxinv
- BFGSmax function: add facility for supplying analytical derivatives
- Eviews data importer: handle more cases of .wf1 files
- BFGS: make the degree of verbosity tunable via "set bfgs_verbskip"
- Fix bug: crash on error in user_matrix_ols()
- Fix bug: "append" for data should work in more cases
- Fix bug: saving a model when there is already a saved model of the
same name (in the GUI) caused a crash
- Fix bug: setting of sub-sample information on models estimated with
a loop construct
- Fix bug: the GUI option for reporting standardized residuals for
GARCH models got broken
- Fix bug: handling of on-the-fly matrices in "printf"
- Fix bugs: miscellaneous small GUI bugs
- Fix bugs 2918790, 2918783, 2918775, 2917053
2009-11-25 version 1.8.6
- Fix bug: the "print" command for series fails after exiting a loop
with the --progressive option set
- ARIMAX models: follow the practice of most software and difference
both the dependent variable and the exogenous regressors; a new
option, --y-diff-only, restores the old behavior of leaving the
regressors in levels. This resolves bug 1972626.
- arima: fix some "corner case" bugs and extend the options that can
be controlled via the GUI
- Add hyperbolic functions, asinh and friends
- heckit: use analytical score, and use hyperbolic transformation in
estimating rho
- Fix bug: a native gdt file made from imported data could end up
containing non-UTF-8 characters (and hence not be openable)
- Fix bug: the internal $error variable associated with the
--continue option to (e.g.) "arima" could get stuck on within a
command loop
- Fix bug: ensure that the "dataset addobs" command is recorded in
the session command log when observations are added in the course
of forecasting
- Fix bug: corruption in saving GARCH models in a session file
- "fcast": add a --plot option to generate a plot of the forecast in
batch mode
- L-BFGS-B: add a "set" variable, lbfgs_mem, to control the number of
corrections used in the limited memory matrix
- GUI dialogs for mle, gmm: add controller for BFGS details
- "scatters" command: add an --output option as for the "gnuplot"
command
- Fix bug: the popup menu item "Execute line", in script windows, was
not working
- Fix bug: bad Weibull plot (under "Distribution graphs") when adding
Weibull curve to an existing plot that includes negative values of
x
- Add facility to display normal and logistic CDFs
- Add convenience function: logistic()
- MS Windows package: update pango and gnuplot
- Scalar variables: improve GUI management, and add a --scalars
option to the "varlist" command
- "mols" function: add option of retrieving the covariance matrix
- Add new function "weekday"
- Fix memory leak on repeated sub-sampling
- Miscellaneous small GUI fixes
2009-10-10 version 1.8.5
- Fix: avoid duplicating the return line when saving packaged
functions that were originally old-style
- Several refinements for function-package editor
- Update the gretl function package DTD
- genr: improvements in type-handling for some tricky cases
- Internal clean-up: revamp gretl's mechanism for reading
configuration info and setting paths at start-up
- Fix bug in handling of the R dll on Windows
- Function parameter [min:max:default] values: fix bug for locales
using ',' as decimal separator
- Fix bugs 2843717, 2848633, 2865384
- Fix bug in corrgm() function when the series given as arguments
contain missing values
- Add --to-file and --from-file options to "set" command
- Several refinements for the GUI "model table"
- Fix bug: error when trying to save the dataset, in the context of a
saved-then-reopened session file
- Fix bug: in some circumstances model tests failed to respect the
sample used when estimating the model, if the sample had since been
changed
- Fix bug: wrong results from the "fcast" command after estimating an
ordered probit or logit model
- Fix bug: the --output option to the "gnuplot" command was not being
respected in the gretl console
- Fix bug: inconsistent handling of maximum command-line length in
the context of loops
- GUI, main window, Sample menu: add an item to print details of the
current sample status
- On closing GUI session, close any open graph windows
- RATS databases: recognize weekly data
- Eviews data importer: fix recognition of the starting month or
quarter for dated time series
- CSV data importer: recognize the rather strange represent- ation of
dates in the IMF's International Financial Statistics
- Add importer for SAS "xport" data
- GUI model window: add option to view the model in equation format,
in plain text, for simple models
- $hausman accessor: make this available for panel models estimated
via the random effects estimator
- add financial functions npv and irr
2009-08-28 version 1.8.4
- Fix breakage in GUI interface for calling user-defined functions,
plus fixes for GUI function package editor
- Patches from Mandriva: build OK with -Wformat-security, and respect
LDFLAGS as supplied by user
- Add "to" to the list of reserved words
- Enable testing of nonlinear restrictions on simultaneous equation
systems
- Update docs and examples for the "new style" definition of
functions
- Small modification to GUI series editor
- Try to make path-searching a little smarter for files referenced in
scripts
- GUI language switcher: add a workaround for platforms missing
proper locale aliases
- Stata dta importer: try to work around missing character encoding
information
- ODS import: fix bug 2841292
- win32: update GTK+ stack to 2.16.5
2009-08-10 version 1.8.3
- Fix bugs 2819633, 2827358, 2828349, 2833434
- $stopwatch: use times() function if available, to include execution
time of child processes
- Add function "mreverse" to reverse rows of a matrix
- Add function "deseas" to deseasonalize a monthly or quarterly time
series using X-12-ARIMA or TRAMO/SEATS
- Remove function "strcmp" as redundant
- Add "sscanf" function
- Add function "pergm" corresponding to the pergm command
- Several fixes and enhancements for interaction with TRAMO/SEATS and
X-12-ARIMA
- Many small GUI fixes
- Add (optional) support for Ox programs via the "foreign" command
- Ctrl-X in editing windows: cut text, don't exit
- Data importers: add a comment to the imported dataset saying where
it came from
- 3-D graphs: use the wxt terminal in gnuplot if it's available
- Fix for putting RTF onto clipboard on OS X
- Observation labels ("case markers"): print up to 15 characters of
such labels
- Support compaction of hourly (24 hours per day) data to daily
- Add "set" variable "csv_na" to control the representation of NA
values in CSV output (also GUI selector for same)
- Remove old "set" variable, "protect_lists"
- Help windows: substantial revamp of GUI, plus fixes for dealing
with translated helpfiles
- Add experimental function debugger: new "debug" command
- Stata importer: support current format 114 .dta files
- MS Windows: update the GTK+ stack
- Lists: allow formation of a new list by subtraction of one list
from another
- "omit" command with --auto option: allow specification of a list of
candidates for omission
- fix bug: "smpl --no-missing" was not always purging missing values
in the case of panel data
- fix bug: possible confusion when creating a named list if the
dataset contains a variable named "to"
- fix bug: wrong error message given by "system" command on
encountering missing values
- fix bug: crash in estimating a system via LIML when the equations
are given in TSLS fashion (i.e., y X ; Z)
2009-07-08 version 1.8.2
- Fixes for GARCH "corner cases"
- "summary" command: add --simple and --by=byvar options
- Fix another XLS import bug
- nls, mle, gmm, arma: allow continuation of scripts when these
estimators fail to converge, in which case the variable $error is
set to a non-zero value (new --continue option)
- "fcast" command: add more forecast evaluation statistics
- Add fcstats function to provide statistics for evaluation of
forecasts
- GUI model window, Graphs menu: add scatter plot of actual vs fitted
a la Theil
- Rationalize use of GRETL_KEEP_GOING and halt_on_error: induce
consistency between CLI and GUI programs
- xtab command: add --matrix option to take frequencies from a named
matrix
- add "anova" command (one-way and two-way) plus GUI menu entry
- Main window: make column headings clickable for sorting variables
by ID number or name
- Enhancements to Edit Attributes dialog for data series
- "heckit command": fix problem with some residuals being unavailable
via $uhat
- Printing: fix bad output from "pergm" command when the spectral
density is very large
- Printing: revise printout of summary statistics for better
consistency in non-English locales and for long variable names
- Fix bug: allow for the fact that TRAMO truncates long variable
names to 8 characters in the names of its output file
- Fix bug: ensure that old X-12-ARIMA output files get deleted before
a new run
- TRAMO and X-12-ARIMA: try to provide better information in case of
errors
- Add GUI option: suppress detailed printout from X-12-ARIMA
- GUI menu Variable/Filters: add GUI access to the fracdiff function
- Several small fixes for the GUI
- Fix bugs 2806815, 2810219
2009-05-21 version 1.8.1
- Fix bugs 2533543, 2590417, 2604963, 2687954, 2734471, 2741374,
2780592
- resample() function: add a second, optional parameter, namely a
block length for resampling by moving blocks
- Ensure that gretl.lang (for gtksourceview) gets updated in Windows
build
- Forecasts with confidence intervals: make the confidence level
configurable via the GUI (and similarly for confidence bands on
impulse response plots)
- VECMs: add a GUI selector for lags of any exogenous variables
- genr: make '^' (exponentiation) associate rightwards
- genr: support the syntax "func(args)[slice]" to select directly a
submatrix from a function call that returns a matrix
- panel, random effects estimator, Hausman test: notify the user if
the matrix-difference version of the Hausman test fails; also
document the --hausman-reg option in the help entry for the "panel"
command; and fix the covariance matrix in case --hausman-reg is
chosen.
- VARs: support gaps in the lag structure (not for VECMs); also,
allow single-equations VARs
- New GUI graph option: "Plot curve" under the tools menu, for quick
plotting of a formula
- Chow test: add the option of specifying a dummy variable rather
than a break point
- Boxplots: enable boxplot command in loops
- seq() function: add a third, optional step parameter
- Speed up loading of very large data files in gretl native format
- Fixes for handling of data files with over 999 variables
- Minor improvement to parsing of dates in CSV files
- "lags" command: accept a scalar variable for the parameter
indicating how many lags to generate
- "logit" command: support multinomial logit via a new option,
--multinomial
- ordered logit, probit: add count of cases 'correctly predicted',
plus overall likelihood ratio test for all slopes = 0
- Graph editing dialog: provide more comprehensive font selection
apparatus if gnuplot supports cairo
- "gnuplot" script command: add mechanism for naming the output file,
and selecting EPS/PDF/PNG output directly
- Fix bug in binomial plot for 60 <= n < 170
- MS Windows build: update to gnuplot 4.3 CVS as of March 2009
- Enhancements for GUI menu item "Count missing values"
- tsls: add Stock-Yogo minimum eigenvalue test for weak instruments
- Modify the files in the win32 subdirectory of the gretl source to
support building on MS Windows with mingw/msys
- Enforce the prohibition on using gretl command words as names for
variables
- Script editing window: add "New" and "Open" buttons
- New function psdroot: find the Cholesky-type root of a positive
semidefinite (and possibly singular) matrix
- New function filter: compute an ARMA-like filtering of a series
- Add a GUI language selector (by popular request!)
- "restrict" command: accept scalar variables in place of numerical
constants
- "genr" with lists: allow boolean comparison of a list to a scalar,
returning a series
- Add new string function "tolower"
- Rename "lmtest" command to "modtest"
- Add --comfac option to "modtest" for testing common factor
restriction in models estimated via an AR(1) method
- Add user-level access to the Kalman filter, with a new command
"kalman" and new functions kfilter, ksmooth and ksimul
2009-01-23 version 1.8.0
- Fix bug: crash in "Add random variable" dialog
- Translation fixes
- Add new command: "modprint"
- Remove obsolete commands: "rhodiff" and "hccm"
- Speed-ups for the pdf() function as applied to a series argument
- New option --numeric for the nls and mle commands, to force the use
of numerical derivatives
- Numerous small graphing and GUI fixes
- MS Windows: fix for opening graphs in old session files
- Graphs: "display PDF" option: fix possible encoding issue
- GUI graph controller: new facility to add a line, defined via a
formula, to an existing graph
- GUI graph controller: add facility to choose point style
- Gnuplot line-color selector: extend to 6 colors, and distinguish
between setting the "palette" and setting ad hoc colors for a
specific graph
- Scalars: make these accessible via the icon view window; enable
copying to clipboard as CSV; enable entry of a formula (starting
with "=") in scalar-editing window
- Fix encoding issue when copying to clipboard as plain text or RTF
- Boxplots: hand the production of these over to gnuplot
- New function: urcpval(), gives user access to James MacKinnon's
p-values for unit root and cointegration test statistics (tau)
- New function: mpols(), enables multiple-precision OLS for
user-defined matrices
- New function: toepsolv(), solves a Toeplitz system of linear
equations
- New function: mcovg(), matrix covariogram
- Improve error-reporting in relation to GUI genr dialog
- Make parsing of input from GUI ARMA dialog more robust
- New feature: add importer for SPSS .sav files
- CSV importer: try to handle time-series data in reverse
chronological order
- "fcast": allow variables for the startobs and endobs arguments; add
"rolling" k-step-ahead option
- Fix bug in ADF --verbose printout (wrong p-value shown for one
lagged difference in some cases)
- GUI plot editor: translate the gnuplot style strings
- Switch to more compact tabular form for presenting model statistics
- OLS and fixed effects: add option to calculate p-value for the
Durbin-Watson statistic
- Add accessors $Fstat and $chisq for the overall F-statistic or
chi-square test from the last model
- Make the "restrict" command available for nls, mle and gmm
- Improve forecasting options for nls models
- Add model menu item: "Modify model", under the Edit menu, provides
a clone of the model specification
- Loops: allow the "gnuplot" command, operating strictly in batch
mode
- New command "intreg": implements interval regression
- Several updates to the documentation
- Fix bugs 2042328, 2472732, 2510727, 2510759
2008-09-28 version 1.7.9
- Revamp the data structure "wizard"
- Fix bugs 2102478, 2116172, 2118506
- Periodogram graph: fix bug for case where the locale decimal
separator is not '.'
- Add Russian translation, Turkish translation
- Small GUI fixes
- Modifications to web-downloader for new server settings
- Fix for non-ascii file names in session files on MS Windows
- genr: fix for unary minus in exponentiation (e.g. x^-.5)
- nls: fix R^2 printout
- dummify function: accept a second argument (see the help for
details)
- ordered probit/logit: fix bug with displaying these models in the
GUI model window
2008-09-14 version 1.7.8
- Add a language-switching option to the gretl GUI (under
Preferences/General)
- Improve formatting of HCCME options pane
- Fix breakage in "rename" command (renaming series)
- Fix bug 2089048
- Enable Chow test for non-time series datasets
- Revise formatting style for model output
- Change the label "standard error of residuals" to "standard error
of the regression"
- Allow users to change the text size in help windows
- Fix two more bugs in connection with user-defined functions in the
context of a sub-sampled dataset
- Fix bug: with the --panel-vars option to the "setobs" command,
check more carefully the validity of the supposed unit and
time-period index variables
- Chow test: perform a robust version if the original model was
estimated using an HCCME
- OS X package: fix for the problem whereby GTK could lose track of
its image-loading modules
- CSV data: improve recognition of daily dates
- PCA: fix column-order of components in printout for the case of
more than 7 components
- Small fixes for opening of datafiles in GUI
- GARCH: add --nc option to suppress the constant in the mean
equation; add --fcp option to use Fiorentini et al code; expand and
update help entry
- Periodogram graph: always base y-axis at zero
- Seasonal ARMA: fix for bad handling of automatically added scalars
2008-08-28 version 1.7.7
- Revamp of internal handling of scalar variables
- The --preserve option to the "nulldata" and "open" commands now
preserves existing scalars as well as matrices
- Windows package: update to GTK+ 2.12.11 and friends
- Inside functions: restrict the smpl command within the bounds set
on entry to the function
- setobs command: if used inside a function, revert the effects on
exit
- ordered probit/logit: fix for the case where the dependent variable
does not form a continuous integer sequence; fix reporting of
information criteria; switch to the mode of presentation of
cut-points used by Stata and R
- string-editing dialogs: ensure we have a cancel button
- Saving data when the dataset is currently sub-sampled: fix breakage
whereby the option to restore the full dataset was not shown
- Naming variables: put in place more stringent checking to avoid
name collisions across series, scalars, matrices, etc.
- VARs in saved sessions: ensure that we save the information needed
for subsequent bootstrap analyses
- Fix the mechanism for searching for a user's customized LaTeX
preamble file (got broken at some point)
- LaTeX compilation: be more lenient -- getting some output on
standard error does not necessarily mean that compilation has
failed
- Determining the main gretl directory: try to handle the case where
the user has a stale ~/.gretl2rc file
- Minor OS X fixes
- Respect keyboard "Esc" as dialog "Cancel" more consistently
- Variable selection dialogs: allow use of right and left arrow keys
to activate the "Add" and "Remove" buttons
- Linear models without a constant: print the centered R^2 as well as
the uncentered
- Fix for reading native data files containing auto-generated lags:
re-establish the lag info correctly
2008-07-30 version 1.7.6
- Fix bug: revise the way that list arguments to user-defined
functions are handled, to avoid potential namespace collisions
- Add menu item: Variable/Normality test
- Add $xlist accessor: gets the list of regressors from the last
model
- Add $version accessor: gets the gretl version
- Add $windows accessor (1 if running on MS Windows, else 0)
- Add $datatype accessor (see function help)
- Remove some redundant preferences items
- Fix bugs 1996156, 1996161, 2017872, 2027121
- MLE fixes
- Fix for RTF output from GUI model table
- Function package help: ensure this is not truncated
- Fix bug: incorrect generation of NAs when doing "genr unitdum" on a
sub-sampled panel dataset
- Add new panel data functions: pmax, pmin, pnobs
- Internal: recode parts of the gretl GUI to avoid dependence on
deprecated GTK APIs
- Speed-ups for loops containing genr commands
- Several fixes for reading and writing gretl session files
- Function packages: add facility to append a sample script
- Enhancements for GUI function-packager
- File dialogs: try to ensure that focus falls back to the right
window when such windows are closed
2008-06-13 version 1.7.5
- max() and min() functions: extend the syntax to allow a list
argument
- Reading CSV data: automatically substitute '_' for illegal
characters in variable names
- Support DESTDIR for make install
- Add Weibull distribution to the various gretl probability
distribution functions
- Fix for parsing a restriction with leading numerical term
- New functions: pdf, sdc, msortby
- User-defined functions: allow a descriptive string to accompany
each parameter, for use in GUI
- Add $unit accessor to get a panel unit index
- Add "--breusch-pagan" option to lmtest command (with --robust
option to use the Koenker robust variance estimator); also add this
test to the GUI
- Fix some bugs in sub-sampling of panel datasets
- Revise the GUI for setting the sample range for panel data
- Improvements for panel time-series graphs
- Fix bug in importing data with long numeric observation labels
- printf command: allow matrices in place of scalars (e.g. using "%f"
or "%g" conversion)
- GUI script output window: add option of making output "sticky"
(running a script appends to text)
- Add log-axis option to GUI graph editing dialog
- GUI program: add right-click popup menus to more windows
- Fix bugs 1929957, 1922915, 1951681, 1954428, 1954838, 1960861,
1969680, 1972629, 1972613, 1980775
- Add guard against unmatched "if" in loops, functions and scripts
- Fix bug: VARs and equation systems not getting removed as "last
model" on exit from user-defined functions, which could cause
strange errors in complex scripts
- Fix for forecasts from equation systems displayed in the GUI
program
- Updates to some screenshots in the User's Guide
- pca command: add --covariance option to base the analysis on the
covariance matrix instead of the correlation matrix
- corr command: document the --uniform option and add it to the GUI
- Fix bug: loops inside conditionals inside a loop were not executing
properly in some cases
- X-Y scatterplot: add option of controlling for a third variable
- hsk command: fix for the case where the model includes a dummy that
is specific to a particular observation
- arima specification dialog: add checkbox for basing standard errors
on the Hessian
- store, outfile, etc.: if the filename starts with "~/", expand this
to the user's home directory, if possible
- Search for data file collections: add the user's gretl data
directory ("dotdir") to the path searched
- "append" command: try harder to make this do what the user is most
likely to want in the case of panel data
- frequency distribution in GUI: allow choice of bin size, as with
frequency plot
- fixed effects estimation: print the average constant
- eigengen function: make this behave as the manual says
- OLS anova: add p-value for the F-statistic
- Fix VECM forecast graph in GUI ("pre-forecast" fitted values were
not integrated)
- "open" command: add options for controlling importation from
spreadsheets
- add "set debug" option for deugging user-defined functions
- GUI function package: add option to save the packaged functions as
a regular gretl script
- Fix bug in modification of LMF autocorrelation test (bug was
introduced in gretl 1.7.4)
- Script editor: add option to show line numbers
- Native database windows: add right-click popup menu
- Local function package listing: sort alphabetically
- logit/probit: add code to detect perfect classifiers
- "tabprint" model-printing command: add --rtf option to produce RTF
output rather than LaTeX
- Windows build: update to Lapack version 3.1.1
- Add quantile regression ("quantreg" command)
- Add experimental support for importing data from an external
database via ODBC
- Add "normest" command to test a series for normality, with options
of Doornik-Hansen, Shapiro-Wilk or Jarque-Bera
- Model window, confidence intervals for coefficients: add option of
changing the confidence level from the default of 95 percent; and
similarly for confidence ellipses
- Add facility for writing and executing R scripts via the gretl GUI
- Durbin-Watson statistic: supply a larger table of critical values
(thanks to Marcin Blazejowski and Tadeusz Kufel)
2008-03-21 version 1.7.4
- Fix for ADF-GLS test with missing values
- Fix for detection of unit-diagonal matrix (oops!)
- Merge fit and fcasterr commands with fcast
- Add $fcast and $fcerr accessors for use with fcast
- Autocorrelation test: use Kiviet's original 1986 formula for the
LMF statistic
- "system" command: enable naming of systems in the manner "sysname
<- system"; enable forecasts; make parsing of identities more
robust; enable TeX view/print in GUI; add new accessors $yhat,
$sysGamma, $sysA, $sysB
- "estimate" command: add --quiet option
- remove obsolete command: multiply
- Consolidate the commands corc, hilu and pwe into one new command
with options: ar1
- Fix for the case of graphing 6 time series together
- Fix bugs 1908139, 1909469
- Fix documentation of $stopwatch
- Move handling of strings into "genr"; add strlen function
- fdjac and BFGSmax functions: don't require that the function-call
argument be wrapped in quotes
- "corr" command: allow printing of ranked data for Kendall's tau as
well as spearman (verbose option); also add a verbose check-box to
the rank-correlation dialog
- User's Guide: add a discussion of Arellano-Bond
- Enable "delete" command for saved strings
- Enable naming of matrix columns, via colnames function or the GUI
matrix editor
- Enable "dataset resample" in loops (experimental)
- Runs test: enable the "--difference" option in the CLI; handle the
case where positive and negative values are not equiprobable by
default, but add an "--equal" option to impose the equiprobability
assumption
- Fix for "data error" in VECM autocorrelation tests (for now we'll
just do Ljung-Box)
- Fix sub-sampling bug (new in 1.7.3)
2008-02-29 version 1.7.3
- Fix for 64-bit platforms: don't use "long" as the C counterpart of
Fortran 77 "INTEGER"
- Make the rcond function available for asymmetric matrices
- Enable the $yhat accessor for fitted values in equation systems
- Add Italian function help to Windows build
- Weekly to monthly data compaction: respect the user's choice of
compaction method, as claimed
- Add trimr matrix function (as in Gauss)
- Extend matrix "division" a la Gauss
- Disallow user functions with the same name as a built-in function
- Update several screenshots in User's Guide
2008-02-25 version 1.7.2
- list-creation: add "dataset" option to use all currently available
data series
- Fix bug in recording result of TSLS heteroskedasticity test
- Add sscanf command (a subset of C sscanf functionality)
- Add shell capture for strings via $(shellcommand)
- Paths stuff: add (non-configurable) "dotdir" to hold per-user
automatically-created files
- Fix bugs 1861010, 1868859, 1869271, 1870459, 1870973, 1871110,
1871135, 1873625, 1874601, 1881849, 1897648
- Rationalize frequency plot dialog
- Add Help item to forecast dialog
- Fixes for matrix "dot operations"
- Fix breakage in graph color selector
- Fixes for ODS spreadsheet importer
- Document the --auto option for the "omit" command, and add a GUI
handle for it
- MS Windows and OS X packages: update to gnuplot 4.3 (CVS)
- Graphing internals: use UTF-8 for internationalized strings
- Models having an exact fit: block various invalid tests
- det() function: fix for singular matrices
- GUI script editor enhancements
- Allow drag of database from databases-on-server window to local
native databases window; also function packages from server to
local function package window
- Add basic support for the DF-GLS test via a new --gls option to the
adf command
- Add selifc and selifr matrix functions
- Generalize several functions to accept matrix as well as series
argument, e.g. quantile, diff, cum, resample
- Add new accessors for TSLS test results: $hausman and $sargan
- Many small improvements to the GUI
- Add systematic documentation for the functions available in the
genr command
- Enable "append" command in loops
- Ordered logit and probit: don't insist that the dependent variable
has a minimum of zero
- Windows installer: update GTK version, packaged zlib1.dll, and
gtksourceview DLL.
- Fix bug in arima auto-differencing, for non-seasonal order greater
than 1 plus seasonal differencing
2007-12-25 version 1.7.1
- Add documentation for "set stopwatch"
- Add movavg function to genr (not documented yet)
- Add autocorrelation and heteroskedasticity tests for models
estimated via TSLS
- Add "dataset resample n" command to resample observations with
replacement (not documented yet)
- Add functions for matrix I/O from/to text files
- Fix garch bug when p!=q
- Fix bugs: 1848487, 1847908, 1850842, 1848039, 1840179, 1842439,
1841098, 1843664, 1835707, 1841107, 1841774
- Fix bugs in saving/re-opening restricted VECM models as part of a
gretl session
- Fix bug in CUSUM/CUSUMSQ plots for time series data frequency
greater than 1
- Work around strange behavior of gnuplot 4.2 on Ubuntu
- Reinstate user-level choice of "Windows-look" emulation
- Reinstate user choice of menu font on Windows
- Script editor: add right-click popup with menu items to
comment/uncomment selected block of commands, and to execute a line
or region
- genr: fix for case where closing parenthesis is missing at the end
of a formula
- OS X: replace fftw library with an i386 build
- Toolbar: use GTK stock icons where possible
- Gnuplot commands editor: fix behavior of save button
- Time series plot, more than one series: add option to show separate
small plots
- Output from script execution: reuse existing output window if it's
left open
- Add set variable "fcp" to use Fiorentini, Calzolari and Panattoni
GARCH code
- Add set variable for max iterations in a "while" loop
- Fix bug: missing data handled incorrectly in ascii graphs
- Removed obsolete genr function varnum()
- Renaming session objects: move to popup menu
- Saving text from output windows: give choice of saving to file, or
as session icon
- Commands allowable in loops: enable all but a fairly small subset
- Shell command: when invoked in gui console, send output to gui
console
- Fix handling of "quit" when it's blocked by "if"
2007-11-27 version 1.7.0
- Add heckit estimator
- Add estimation/testing for restricted VECM models
- Fix for loop on empty list
- Fix for remaining issues with apostrophes in graph titles
- Fix for lists as arguments for user-defined functions
- Fix for saved sessions after using Forecast menu items
- Fix for long variable names in Model Graph menus
- Improve formatting for nonparametric difference test
- Improve formatting for "freq" command; also add --silent option for
this command
- Add ceil() and floor() functions in genr
- Add "--p-values" option to show p-values instead of slopes for
logit, probit models
- Add options to GUI for xtab command (cross-tabulation); also add
Fisher's Exact Test for 2 x 2 tables
- Fix for graphing the time trend, and for graphs displaying more
than 8 series
- Fix for length of correlogram on weekly data
- Fix for null matrix arguments to user functions in GUI
- Fix for floating point values in "set" when using decimal comma
- Fix for opening cross-sectional gretl data sets in R version 2.5.0
or higher
- Fixes for autoregressive genr formula: speed-up, and fix bug when
such formulae are used in an nls/mle block
- Double maximum length to gretl command line to 8192 bytes
- Gamma p-values: switch to shape/scale parameterization
- Spearman's rho: fix for case with ties
- Allow for syntax change re. missing values in gnuplot 4.3
- "corr" command: add --spearman and --kendall options
- Rank correlation in GUI: add Kendall's tau option
- Fix a few issues with extreme values in cdf, pvalue code
- add gamma() function in genr to generate gamma random variable
- Modify Locke's test to use Kendall's tau
- Add ginv() (Moore-Penrose inverse) matrix function
- Add multivariate Portmanteau test for autocorrelation in VARs
(Ljung-Box)
- Allow concatenation of multiple short-form options, as in "-rdq"
- Modify retrieval of info from VARs: $coeff gets the matrix of
coefficients, $compan gets the companion matrix
- New accessor: $gmmcrit gets the GMM criterion for a model estimated
via GMM
- gretlcli: Ctrl-X exits without prompting for save
- Databases: allow selection of more than one series for display,
graphing, importing
- Databases: allowing deletion of series from native gretl databases
(if the user has write access)
- New command, "dataset": subsumes the old "addobs" and "transpos",
while adding new options
- fftw DLL for Windows: fix a problem experienced on some Windows
systems
- Generation of random variables in GUI: use an interface consistent
with that for p-values, critical values, etc.
- Fix for XLS importer with non-zero column offset
- Improve error detection and recovery for adding case markers from
file
- Graphs: try to respect line color choices when exporting to
postscript and PDF
- Small improvements to built-in data editor
- ARMA: allow specification of particular AR and/or MA lags (int the
non-seasonal component only)
- Add importer for Open Document Spreadsheet files
- MS Windows: update to version 2.12 of GTK runtime
- MS Windows: update to gnuplot 4.2.2, and add switch in graph
editing dialog to prevent anti-aliasing of lines
- GUI linear restrictions dialog: fix bug whereby parameter names
were not accepted
- Saving databases: fix effect of --overwrite flag to do what the
manual says
- Databases on Windows: look in the gretl user directory as well as
the system db directory
- add argname() function for use in user functions
- Panel, unit-weights: fix omit command
- Fix bug in mailer dialog (crash when closed via window manager)
2007-05-17 version 1.6.5
- Fix new breakage in configuration of user directory
- Updates to manual
- Mark some more strings for translation
- Add new menu set /Tools/Nonparametric tests, with GUI access to the
"difftest" and "runs" commands
- Add --difference option for runs command
- Various small bug-fixes
2007-05-13 version 1.6.4
- Fix breakage in relation to the Windows registry
- Fixes for accented characters in graphs, on systems with UTF-8 as
the standard character encoding
- Additional fixes for Polish text in graphs
2007-05-10 version 1.6.3
- Add facility for bootstrap analysis in GUI, for OLS
- Model table: fixes for including panel models; allow up to 12
models; formatting enhancements
- Fix bug in panel autocorrelation test (lmtest command)
- Add fft() matrix function (Fast Fourier Transform)
- Add cmult() matrix function (complex multiplication)
- Add quantile() function in genr
- Add production of restricted estimates to the "restrict" command as
applied to VECMs
- Multiple fixes for session icon handling
- LAD models: print the median of the dependent variable
- Matrix properties window in GUI: add an indication of whether or
not a square matrix is idempotent
- Panel data, pooled OLS model: when robust standard errors are
chosen, use the Arellano-type HAC estimator (well, it's HAC when
the time-series dimension is small); also offer Beck-Katz Panel
Corrected Standard Errors
- Apply the above to tsls in a panel context also
- Panel data, "summary" command for single variable: show the within
and between standard deviations
- Add "--quiet" option to lmtest command (don't print the auxiliary
regression)
- Observation labels: ensure these are properly XML-encoded when
saving a data set as gdt
- Fix bug that could cause a crash when exiting the program on MS
Windows
- Fix bug: crash when saving a graph as an icon, when the icon window
is currently displayed
- Fix an encoding issue with the command-line help files on platforms
where the default encoding is UTF-8
- Correlation matrix: try to be smarter in face of non-aligned
missing observations
- CSV data: add support for Mac-style text files
- "loop" command, "progressive" option: fixes for the case where this
is invoked for loops other than the simple "count" type
- Further optimization of gretl_matrix functions
- Various modifications to the configuration process
2007-03-24 version 1.6.2
- Add Poisson distribution to p-value finder
- Fix breakage in GUI "graph page" apparatus
- Graph page: give color / monochrome option
- Bivariate scatterplots: give the option of showing various sorts of
fitted line: linear, quadratic, inverse or loess
- Monochrome EMF graphs: make sure point types are distinct for
different series
- Internal clean-up of the graphing code
- Make frequency plots more configurable via the GUI
- Fix memory leaks in GUI graph editor dialog
- Bugfix: estimating models inside nested functions could cause a
crash
- Session icon window: don't display temporary matrices, generated
within functions
- Icon window: fix display on one-character object names
- Fix memory leak when generating some sorts of matrices
- Add option of using Parzen or Quadratic Spectral kernel (the
default is Bartlett) when computing HAC covariance matrix
- Add a toolbar to windows that display lists of files
- Several fixes and enhancements for function package editor
- Fix for "omit" command in relation to arbond estimation
- Correlation matrix, etc, in GUI: don't disable menu items if only
one variable is selected
- System estimation: fix breakage of the "save=" mechanism for
residuals and/or fitted values
- gmm: improve syntax handling for orthogonality conditions
- Update the API documentation (still very much incomplete)
- Update gnuplot to version 4.2.0 in the Windows installer
2007-02-26 version 1.6.1
- Revamp for internal "genr" mechanism plus some user-visible changes
to genr
- Make the "delete" command do what the manual says
- Doing "Edit attributes" on a newly generated variable: you can edit
the formula and hence change the content of the variable
- Displaying table of summary statistics for multiple variables:
allow slightly longer variable names before falling back from
combined tabular format to individual tables
- Sorting variables in main window: always revert to sort by ID
number after making changes (e.g. loading a new dataset)
- Main-window variable listing: don't always jump to line 1 after
making changes
- When you "Save as" in the Command log window, ensure that all the
regular script-editing signals are properly connected (e.g. the
state of the Save icon responds appropriately)
- "dummify" command: add options --drop-first and --drop-last; make
--drop-first the default when the dummify() construct is used in a
regression list
- Add ordered probit analysis for the case where the dependent
variable is discrete but not binary
- Add computation of generalized residuals in various estimators
- Revamp Tobit estimation: use BFGS instead of BHHH, allow --robust
option and add normality test
- Fix some bugs and inconsistencies in relation to the Ljung-Box
statistic and ACFs
- Fix bug in the Baxter-King filter routine
- Add the CUSUMSQ test alongside CUSUM
- Add test version of Arellano-Bond dynamic panel data estimation
- Fix bug in GUI spreadsheet in relation to adding variables
- Fix bug in restricting the sample in the GUI, for the case where's
there's already a restriction in place
- QLR test: add time-series graph of F test
- new command "xcorrgm" for cross-correlogram of 2 variables
- Add bivariate normal to cdf()
- New modular engine for garch estimation (no user-visible changes
for now)
- Make window size for semiparametric estimators of the fractional
integration parameter adjustable by the user
- Make the number of bins for a frequency plot adjustable via GUI
- Add facility to generate Binomial and Poisson random variables
- Row format for tabular output of models in TeX: make this
configurable
- Add several matrix functions
- Add nonlinear GMM estimation (experimental)
- Numerous small bug-fixes
2006-09-13 version 1.6.0
- Revamp mechanism for saving sessions in gui program (we now save
sessions as zipfiles containing XML representations of any models
that have been estimated)
- Add "native" exact ML estimation of ARMA models using the Kalman
filter
- Saving data in native gretl format: make gzip compression the
default
- Add some basic functionality for analysis of discrete variables.
New behavior of frequency distribution, plus new commands:
"discrete" (interpret variables as discrete), "dummify" (create a
set of dummies coding for the values of a discrete variable), and
"xtab" (cross-tabulation of two discrete variables)
- Don't add an extra newline at the end of plain text data files
(e.g. CSV)
- "restrict" command for single equations: add a printout of the
restricted coefficient estimates and standard errors
- Add mechanism for packaging user-defined functions so as to make
these available for other users; also add a mechanism for
downloading such packages from a server, and for uploading new
packages to the server
- Redefine the weight variable in gretl's "wls" command, for better
compatibility with other programs: the weight var is now defined as
the series of diagonal elements of the weighting matrix, so
existing gretl scripts that use wls should square the old weight
variable
- Don't print the "model has no constant" message, and do not use
special methods to calculate R^2 and F, if the set of regressors
spans the space of a constant
- Indexing of coefficients in "restrict" command: standardize on
using a 1-based index in all contexts
- Revamp panel data estimation: redefine the "panel" command for
fixed- or random-effects estimation, rename the old "panel" command
as "paneldat"; refine calculation of Hausman test statistic
- Lags in main window: make these visible under their parent
variable, via a "twisty" triangle
- Revamp multiple-precision models: add more statistics, and make
them available for capture via genr
- Revamp test for differences of two means in the GUI hypothesis test
calculator
- Imposing panel structure on a data set: add the option of defining
the structure by reference to two index variables, one for the unit
and one for the period -- this is implemented in the "setobs"
command and the GUI data structure wizard
- Add --robust option to nls command (nonlinear least squares)
- Add --hessian and --robust options to the mle command, which
respectively produce a covariance matrix based on the Hessian and a
QML sandwich estimator of the covariance matrix
- Add Quandt likelihood ratio (QLR) test for structural break
- ADF and KPSS tests: add option to difference the selected variable
before testing
- Delimiter for "CSV" files: add semicolon to the list of options
- VECMs: make Johansen's alpha and beta retrievable as matrices with
identifiers $jalpha and $jbeta
- Several bug-fixes for the matrix manipulation facility, plus a few
new functions (meanr, meanc)
- GUI menus restructured and polished
- Add facility for multiple time-series graphs from the GUI
- Revamp the "--ten" option for printing variables to 10 digits:
replace with a configurable "--long" option
- Graph editing dialog: make the line width configurable, and also
make the preferred line width settable per variable in the "Edit
attributes" dialog
- Data import and export: add option for reading and saving data in
JMulTi format
- Databases: add capacity to read PcGive in7/bn7 databases
- Gretl command minibuffer: model commands now produce GUI model
windows (for single-equation methods)
- QR decomposition option: fix the F-statistic values produced for
autoregressive models
- pvalue() function: always return the right-hand value, but add a
complementary cdf() function that always gives the left-hand value
- NIST linear regression test suite: re-express accuracy in terms of
log relative error, plus other enhancements
- Generating random variables: add option to generate t and
chi-square values in GUI; add option of setting the PRNG seed to
the GUI variable-generation dialogs
- Time-series filters: Add Hodrick-Prescott and Baxter-King filters
as a GUI menu item, along with simple moving average and
exponential moving average
- Engle-Granger cointegration test: improve printout, add option to
test down for the lag order, and fix an issue with the selection of
the MacKinnon p-value for this test
- Tobit: enable handling of missing observations for this estimator
2006-03-24 version 1.5.1
- Add matrix manipulation functionality
- Fix translation bug for VAR menus
- Fix bug in assignment of values returned from user-defined
functions
- Small fix for helpfile formatting
- Add calculation of Gini coefficient and Lorenz curve to GUI
Variable menu
- Provide option of including seasonal dummy variables in
Dickey-Fuller tests
- Add two more "genr" functions: qnorm (quantiles of normal
distribution) and gini (Gini coefficient)
- Fix some bugs in handling of named lists, and start documenting
this properly
- Enforce use of '.' as decimal separator in genr formulae
- Fix filename encoding issue with opening of CSV files
- Eliminate deprecated command "sim"
- Extend maximum length of variable names to 15 characters
- Disable "shell" command by default (it can be enabled under
/File/Preferences)
- Change the names of the internal variables coeff, stderr and rho to
$coeff, $stderr and $rho
- Add various keyboard shortcuts to main window, including Alt-X for
a "gretl minibuffer" a la Emacs
- Time series model menu: add option for selecting optimal lag length
for a VAR, based on information criteria
- VARs: add a "Tests" menu item to GUI VAR window, permitting tests
for omission of exogenous variables (if any)
- Model window, Graphs menu: if the data are time series, add options
to view the correlogram and periodogram of the residual from the
model
- Add Hannan-Quinn criterion in all contexts where Akaike and and
Schwartz criteria are shown
- Various fixes for model selection dialog
- win32: fix the issue whereby copy-and-pasted EMFs had a large
margin to the top and right
- win32: fix opening of files with non-ascii characters in their
names
- XLS and Gnumeric importers: supply automatic varnames if no
variable names are present
- ARMA: Alter presentation of parameter estimates (call them "phi"
and "theta"); provide native multiplicative seasonal models
- Fix issue with spectrum plot when the order of magnitude of the
series is very low
- Introduce "set" parameters for tweaking the BHHH algorithm
convergence criteria
- Add GUI lag selector
- VARs: add numerical output to VAR roots plot
- Allow commands like var and arma to be specified with a scalar
variable as order
- Add "dsort" command for reverse sorting
- Enhance and robustify script capabilities
2005-12-15 version 1.5.0
- Add VECM (Vector Error Correction Models) for time-series data
- Add confidence ellipse option for two coefficients, in model window
menu
- New command "mle" : a general-purpose maximizer of log likelihood,
using the BFGS algorithm -- works much like the "nls" command,
taking a user-specified log likelihood function as input, along
with (optionally) derivatives of the log likelihood with respect to
the parameters
- More XLS importer fixes
- Add support for seasonal ARMA; add "sdiff" command (and
corresponding function in genr) for creating seasonal differences
- Add capacity to produce time-series graphs with panel data sets
- Accommodate custom time-series frequencies
- Johansen cointegration test: extend to cover all 5 cases, produce a
fuller report (loadings, long-run matrix)
- Add bootstrapped confidence intervals for impulse responses in VAR
models
- Add test for multivariate normality of VAR residuals
- Add autocorrelation and ARCH tests for VAR equations
- Add printing of cross-equation covariance matrix for VARs
- Add combined plot of residuals for VARs
- Add combined impulse response plot for VARs
- Add log-likelihood, AIC and BIC for VARs
- Add inverse roots plot for VARs (Jack Lucchetti)
- Add log-likelihood for models estimated via OLS
- Add "robust" option for logit and probit (compute QML or
Huber-White covariance matrix)
- Add "robust" standard errors option for WLS
- Remove overly verbose notification dialogs
- Add importers for Eviews workfiles and Stata .dta files
- Editable windows: show Save button as disabled if there's nothing
to be saved
- Model selection dialog: ensure that the selected regressand is not
also listed among the regressors
- Graph editing: make several more types of graph editable
- Graph saving: add PDF option if it's supported by gnuplot
- Main window: don't show generated lags in the list of variables
- ARMA: remove the ARMA item from the Variable menu (it's still there
in the Model menu); revamp the X-12-ARIMA driver so it can handle
models with exogenous regressors
- gretl graph page: add option to save as TeX source
- TeX: enable pdflatex and viewing of TeX output in PDF form (to use
pdflatex, enter this as the name of the program to compile TeX
files under /File/Preferences/General/Programs; this is now the
default on Windows)
- Add "Send To" (email) functionality for data files and scripts
- "store" command: take file type from filename suffix for ".R" (GNU
R format), ".m" (Octave format) and ".csv" (comma- separated)
- Add new "set" variable, "csv_delim", which sets the delimiter used
when exporting data as CSV -- valid options are "comma" (the
default), "space" and "tab"
- Add a new option for CSV export, "--omit-obs": suppresses the
printing of a first column containing the observations
- X-Y graphs: display equation of fitted line when a fitted line is
shown
- X-Y graphs: when fitted line is shown, add "OLS estimates" menu
item to see details of the simple regression
- Graphs with labeled data-points: give option of showing all labels
(for n < 55)
- Windows displaying two to five data series: add toolbar option to
sort the data, with choice of variable by which to sort
- Test statistic calculator (Utilities menu): besides the entry of
numerical values for sample statistics, enable the calculation of
sample statistics based on selection of variables from the current
data set, with or without sub-sampling restrictions
- Revamp the "online" (plain text) help system
- Split gretl manual into a User's Guide and a Command Reference and
update both parts
2005-06-30 version 1.4.1
- Fix horrid unnoticed breakage in bhhh_max (broke both arma and
tobit, big mess)
- Add utf8 validation/conversion for database descriptions (Banco de
Espana databases)
- Allow dynamic forecasts with models estimated via corc and similar
2005-06-29 version 1.4.0
- Revise definition of functions in gretl scripts (a backward-
incompatible change) in the interest of more structured programming
- Introduce named lists as a type that can be created and manipulated
- Big revamp of forecasting code. Make forecasts available for all
types of models; give a choice of static versus dynamic forecasting
where relevant; make forecast standard errors available in more
cases
- Increase max length of gretl script command line to 4095 bytes
- Add support for decennial data
- Fix for finding TrueType graph fonts on Windows 2000
- Add new "set" option: "horizon", to configure horizon for impulse
responses in context of VARs; also add dialog box to set horizon
for impulse response graphs in GUI
- Disable autocorrelation and ARCH tests in gui model test menu, in
case of cross-sectional data
- Add Local Whittle Estimator for fractional integration, in context
of periodogram command
- Add fracdiff function (fractional differencing) to the genr command
- sort function in genr: save sorted case markers if the dataset has
case markers
- Bug fixes for data editing spreadsheet
- Another bug fix for the XLS importer
- In correlogram (acf) output, show calculated 5% critical value
- Correlogram: acf calculations should not use more than 20 percent
of the available data by default (Tadeusz Kufel)
- Fix bug in Tobit command in the gretl GUI
- "omit" command: add asymptotic Wald test for joint significance of
omitted variables, for estimators other than OLS
- ADF test: allow greater lag length if the data permit
- Add facility to import GNU Octave ascii data files
- Improvements to formatting in Spanish translation
- In statistical tables utility, add a bit more information for
Durbin-Watson and improve formatting
- smpl --restrict: make it not an error if the restriction has no
effect (drops no observations)
- Confidence interval for coefficients, GUI model menu: make
available for all models
- Add matrix of actual and predicted outcomes to the printout of
results for discrete models
- Improvements to many dialog boxes
- Numerous small bug-fixes
2005-03-14 version 1.3.3
- Add "poisson" command (thanks to Jack Lucchetti)
- Fix memory leak in VAR command with impulse responses, in the
command-line program
- Fix bug: possible crash in "loop foreach" if an invalid variable
name is given
- Fix bug: "display data" broken in gui program for long datasets
("press a key to continue" mechanism was invoked erroneously)
- Fix bug: wrong variable shown when you select "Display actual,
fitted, residual" for a GARCH model
- Fix bug: hausman test for pooled model would crash if there were
not sufficient degrees of freedom to estimate the group means model
- Fix bug: crash if default data and script files not installed with
program (thanks to Ignacio and Dirk for finding this)
- Fix bug in genr: unary minus could be wrongly handled within the
argument to a function
- Fixes for appending data (make more flexible: allow appending of
observations and/or variables)
- Fixes for cointegration tests: improve dialogs and prevent crash on
selection of just one variable plus the constant
- Fix naming of Mahalanobis distances variable
- Respect omission of constant from an ARMAX model
- Graph control dialog: add one-click option to force use of a single
y axis
- New: in case of AR(1) estimation (Cochrane-Orcutt and similar), if
a lagged dependent variable is included then we automatically use
the procedure set out in Ramanathan, 5e, p. 450, to generate
consistent estimates of the standard errors
- Fix: gui menu items for test of equality of means, with equal or
unequal variances: these were hooked up in reverse
- corc, hilu and pwe AR(1) commands: make these available in loop
mode
- add "quiet" option for the commands adf, kpss and wls
- add "simple-print" option for ols command (just print the
coefficient table, with no auxiliary statistics)
- add "mahal" command: calculate Mahalanobis distances given a set of
variables; also available in GUI via right-click popup menu when
more than one variable is selected in the main window
- genr command: $nvars gives the number of variables in the dataset
2005-01-28 version 1.3.2
- Fix bug in auto-determination of lag in ADF test: was looking at
the wrong coefficient in some cases
- Fix bug in VAR impulse responses: could get messed up by missing
values that differ across series
- Fix bug: crash on generating LaTeX tabular output for a model
estimated using robust standard errors (format string issue)
- Fix bug: the session "graph page" was not appearing even when a
valid latex executable was available
- Fix bug: gretl console would not respond in case of an error when
executing a command loop
- Fix bug: the "restrict" command failed in the GUI program when not
applied to a named equation system
- Fix bug: printing "-inf" for AIC and BIC in case of a perfect
linear fit
- Fix various issues in relaton to nested loops (for example, where
the control variable for a given loop is not yet defined at compile
time, but will be defined in an embedding loop)
- Fix sort-of bug: possible runaway generation of graphs in response
to some loop commands
- Improve efficiency of test for existence of helper programs on
Linux/unix
- Add auto-lag option to the GUI dialog box for the ADF test
- Remember the options selected in the ADF dialog from one invocation
to the next
- Help files: include menu-path information in the GUI help file as
well as the script commands help
- Provide a mechanism for retrieving the value and/or p-value from
the last statistical test performed (via the special variables
"$test" and "$pvalue" in genr)
- Perfect collinearity: try to detect this, and remove one or more
redundant variables from the regression list if need be
- "label" command: if only a varname is given, print the variable's
current label, if any
- "genr unit": generates an index variable for the cross-sectional
units in a panel dataset (panel data only)
- Add "hurst" command (and GUI menu item) to compute the Hurst
exponent (a measure of long-term persistence used by Mandelbrot)
for a given series
- Remove unused GUI popup menu item "Simulate..."
- Updates to documentation (manual and helpfiles)
2005-01-19 version 1.3.1
- Add new dataset structure "wizard" in place of the old dialogs for
setting frequency, starting observation and time-series or panel
interpretation of the data
- Add FIML and LIML estimation to system command; also add LR
over-identification tests for these systems
- Add Hansen-Sargan over-identification test for SUR and 3SLS system
estimates
- Add "--iterate" option for estimation of systems via SUR and 3SLS
- Add "estimate" command for equation systems, and modify the
"system" command to allow the user to define named systems
- Add gui configuration for robust standard errors options
- VAR dialog: add options for robust standard errors, and for the
printing of impulse responses
- Add univariate kernel density estimation (under the Variable menu
in the gui program -- no script counterpart)
- Purge the lesser-used model selection statistics, and use the
original formulae for AIC and Schwarz's BIC
- Improve feel of data editing spreadsheet, gtk2 version
- Model dialog box: allow shifting of regressors with middle- click
of mouse
- Add groupwise heteroskedasticity test for panel data
- Extend handling of missing observations in panel context, including
case of unbalanced panels (to some degree)
- Fix for appending observations (built-in spreadsheet): plotting
vars were not being automatically extended
- Fix for deleting variables: don't show the "variables have been
renumbered" message if the only vars to be renumbered are hidden
ones
- Fix newly introduced bug in time-series graphs: don't show two y
axes if only one is actually used
- Fix for johansen cointegration test: don't crash if the user puts
the const into the list of variables
- Fix bug in forecasts with standard errors, for case of missing
observations
- Fix bug in reading of CSV files: crash if variable names were not
found, but observation markers were found
- Add new option under Sample menu, "Transpose data" (for data that
were read in "sideways" from, e.g., a CSV file
- Fix bug in ADF p-values for locales which do not use '.' as the
decimal point
- Add BIC (Bayesian Information Criterion) to the list of model
statistics that can be retrieved via genr (internal variable $bic)
- Add Baxter-King bandpass filter (bkfilt function in the "genr"
command), thanks to Jack Lucchetti
- Add Kmenta (1986) dataset and script, for a further example of
system estimation
- Add script to replicate Perron (1997) testing for unit roots with a
structural break at an unknown point
- Add an emacs file, utils/emacs/gretl.el, offering an emacs major
mode for editing and running gretl scripts.
2004-11-15 version 1.3.0
- add "append" command, to append data to the current dataset, as in
the gui File/Append data
- add KPSS stationarity test ("kpss" command, Jack Lucchetti)
- fix bug: data importers were accepting duplicate names for
variables
- XLS importer: handle string formulas; fix handling of large string
tables (SST and CONTINUE records)
- fix bug: error in printing of model selection statistics for very
large or small values on Windows
- fix bug in running scripts from the gretl console: file was not
closed when an error was encountered
- fix bug in Prais-Winsten estimator
- fix bug in influential observations printout, for non- English
locales
- revamp the Dickey-Fuller test functionality, with more options,
clearer presentation (I hope), and p-values using James MacKinnon's
code (JAE, 1996)
- fix panel data bugs: observation strings were broken for frequency
greater than 99, and the "panel" command did not obey the
"cross-section" option (thanks to Mihai Nica for the report)
- frequency plot, against gamma distribution: add Locke's
nonparametric test for the null hypothesis that the variable in
question is gamma
- add facility to generate cross-sectional unit dummies with panel
data ("genr unitdum")
- add facility for nesting loops and fix some loop bugs
- fix some bugs in LaTeX equation display
- fix some breakage in online help system (e.g. for boxplots)
- add support for Latin 2 characters in gnuplot graphs
- add support for compacting daily data to weekly or monthly
- add support for daily data with a 6-day week
- fix for SUR systems with differing numbers of regressors across
equations (thanks to Jack Lucchetti)
- improve convergence of GARCH function (Jack Lucchetti)
- make tobit command robust with respect to the scale of the
dependent variable
- add stack() function to genr command: creates a stacked series from
a comma-separated list of series, or a range of series as in
stack(x1..xn)
- add a genr "special": genr markers = ... can be used to manipulate
the observation marker strings -- details in panel.pdf
- support "genr varname[obs] = ..." for setting individual
observations in a series
- Text/CSV data importer: handle calendar dates for non-daily data;
handle description appended after the data
- add "vif" command to calculate Variance Inflation Factors for
independent variables in a regression; also available in the model
window under Tests/collinearity
- switch to St Louis Fed database as gretl "sample" database (the
BCIH database is getting too out-of-date)
- add the Anscombe Quartet to the gretl data files
- add Mankiw, Romer, Weill (QJE, 1992) dataset and replication
script, also Nelson and Plosser dataset
- on Windows, make EMF graphs respect the user's choice of plotting
colors (required a modification to gnuplot)
- add option to save graphs in EMF format
- various minor gui fixes and enhancements
- update Windows version to glib 2.4.7 and gtk 2.4.13
- start adding user-defined functions
- add mechanism for customizing gretl's tex preamble
2004-07-23 version 1.2.9
- note: 1.2.8 was just a test release
- fixes for LaTeX printing of autoregressive models
- correct Spanish help strings
- fix font problem for some objects in session window
- fix for exporting time-series data to R version 1.9
- add option to export data to PcGive .dat format (thanks to Michal
Kurcewicz)
- enable TRAMO analysis of annual time-series data
- Windows version: ensure user directory gets created! This was
broken in gretl 1.2.6 and 1.2.7, which could produce
strange-seeming problems.
- hccm command: ensure that the F-stat shown for the model is based
on the robust covariance matrix; also ensure the robust F-stat is
used when robust standard errors are selected with the ols command
- add start-up option to dump gretl configuration to a text file
('-c' or '--dump')
- small fixes for nonlinear least squares
- Replace fixed IP address for database server with hostname
- Fix for copying material from gretl using Ctrl-C on Windows
- Update Windows version to gtk 2.4.3 runtime
- add "restrict" command for general Wald test of linear restrictions
on a model
- add "ok(x)" as a short synonym for "!missing(x)" in the context of
the genr command
- change smpl behavior: restrictions now cumulate by default
- add "smpl" option: "--replace" makes a sample restriction start
from the full dataset rather than cumulating with any previous
restrictions (note: this was the old default)
- another new "smpl" option: "smpl 100 --random" selects 100
observations from the dataset at random
- allow the "--robust" option to the "var" command
- fix for effect of Up/Down keys in main gretl window
- gretlcli in batch mode: pass "#"-style comments through to the
output
- fix HCCME bug: used way too much memory with large data sets
- add a new "set" option, "force_hc": if set to "on", then the robust
option to ols always produces plain HC standard errors, not HAC (by
default, HAC is used with time-series)
- profile and optimize some gretl_matrix functions
- allow specification of consecutive lags in a regressor list using a
shortcut of the form "x(-1 to -4)"
- fix some subtle genr bugs, and some breakage in the nls command
following earlier changes in genr
2004-06-13 version 1.2.7
- add Italian helpfiles (thanks to Cristian Rigamonti)
- update Spanish helpfiles
- add start-up option "-e" or "--english" to force use of English
strings when LANG would indicate translation (also recognize
environment variable GRETL_LANG: if this is "english" or "C", run
in English)
- allow for missing values (silent) in audio graphs
- add a few keystrokes to the main gretl window: 'a': audio (read
list of variables) 'x': stop audio 'e': edit attributes of current
variable 't': plot current variable
- make start-up tests for tramo and x12a less verbose
- fix bug in deletion of scalar variables from the dataset
- fix bug in built-in spreadsheet: clicking in a blank column could
crash gretl
- fix broken behavior of built-in spreadsheet for gtk 2.0.X versions
- fix various bug and typos in documentation
- build tweaks for OS X
- make available a pre-built disk image for OS X
2004-05-25 version 1.2.6
- add Hodrick-Prescott filter, as "hpfilt" function in the genr
command
- revamp xls importer: should now be substantially more robust
- begin adding experimental audio graph feature for visually impaired
users
- improve handling of non-ASCII characters in data files
- fixes for Spanish help files
- more fixes for build process
- GNU Octave data export: write all data as single matrix
- fix printing of "periods" in periodogram output (thanks to Tadeusz
Kufel)
- fix generation of periodic dummy variables for daily data (again
thanks to Tadeusz Kufel)
- with gtk >= 2.4.0 on Linux, use the new gtk file chooser
- update the Windows gtk version to 2.4.1
2004-05-04 version 1.2.5
- fix problem with acf and pacf calculations
- add Prais-Winsten estimator for AR1 models ("pwe" command)
- fix bugs in gretl "graph page"
- fix some translation bugs
- fix headers for compilation on Mac OS X
- fix bug in lmtest option handling
- make Excel importer a little more robust
- bug fix for saving data files with very large number of variables
(tested with 548)
- bug fix for "diff" and "ldiff" commands with panel data in the form
of stacked cross-sections
- plain text output: give option of copying as RTF (puts the output
into Courier New at 9 points)
- in gui, disallow deleting variables when sub-sampled
- setobs command: be more flexible in regard to the format of the
"startobs" field
- saving text files: try to improve handling of CR/LF
- minor fixes to model printing
- gnuplot fix: make copy-and-paste into Microsoft applications work
again (this was broken by an MS security update of April 13, 2004)
2004-03-30 version 1.2.4
- Add ARMAX models: ARMA with exogenous variables
- Add GARCH models, using Fiorentini-Calzolari-Panattoni approach
(Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1996)
- Add "resample" function to genr, for bootstrapping test statistics
- Loops: allow use of a variable name rather than a number to control
a "number of times" loop
- Fix genr bug: problem with an undefined varname in a lag context
- Fix bug: when saved via the objectname mechanism, arma models were
appearing both as saved models and as saved text
- Fix bug: autocorrelation test from model window Tests menu was
broken by new options mechanism
- Fix bug: "--verbose" option for Johansen test was broken
- Fix curious Windows bug: line-endings in scripts were not
recognized in some cases
- Improve path-searching for data files
- Beef up error-checking on opening of native gretl data files
- Improve error-checking on pvalue command
- Fix for Excel importer: allow more than 16K rows
- Error-checking for new varname in genr
- Add robust standard errors/VCV for tsls command
- Allow use of wls command in a loop
- CSV import: add automatic conversion of string variables to code
numbers
- Add Three-Stage Least Squares (system type=3sls): this is still at
the testing stage
2004-02-24 version 1.2.3
- Add Tobit model command, with a new plugin (thanks to Jack
Lucchetti)
- Add color selector for the histogram in frequency plots
- Allow appending/merging of gretl-format data in GUI program
- Fix bug: genr was broken for some special cases of repeated
function calls
- Fix bug: normal pvalues were being shown as zero for large
|z-scores| > 9.0
- Fix bug: the NIST checker plugin was broken for locales that use
',' as decimal point
- Daily data: construct a special plotting variable so daily
time-series can be graphed better; also allow for 4-digit years in
daily dates (YYYY/MM/DD) on input; also fix "genr" so that dummies
can be constructed as in "genr dum = t < 1987:10:19" (note that the
slashes must be replaced by colons in this context)
- Text objects: in scripts and the gui console, many commands can now
have their output diverted to a saved object (e.g. "ADF <- adf 1
Ct"). As with models and graphs, these objects appear in the
Session icon window, and they can be displayed and freed using
objectname.show, objectname.free
- Make the model table available via script and gui console (new
command "modeltab")
- Add "graph page" in session view: allows the user to create a page
(which may then be viewed and printed) containing up to eight
graphs (requires latex, dvips and a postscript viewer)
- Add an OLS option, "-r" or "--robust", which calls for the use of
White's robust standard errors (HC0) in the case of cross-sectional
data, or HAC in the case of time series data. Details can be
configured using the new "set" command.
- New command, "set", for configuring some program parameters via
script or console
- Fix bug: latent problems when adding an observation to the working
dataset
- Fix bug: set the frequency and starting observation could fail when
the local decimal point is not '.'
- Fix: make the genr functions "coeff()", "stderr()" and "vcv()" work
to retrieve statistics from ARMA models
- Fix bug: when appending CSV data to an existing dataset, could get
uninitialized values at the end of the series
- Allow backslash-continuation of long commands in the gui console
- Updated help files and manual
2004-02-02 version 1.2.2
- Make AIC retrievable via genr ("genr foo = $aic")
- Fix brokenness in RTF printing/copying of ARMA models
- Add calculation of modulus and frequency for ARMA roots, and add
printing of these to LaTeX and RTF output
- Fix bug in accessing critical values of F (Utilities menu)
- Add DFFITS values to the "influential observations" model test;
also expand the help entry for this
- Add a little explanation of Johansen cointegration test results to
GUI helpfile
- Fix bug: when you go to save data imported from gnumeric, the
suggested file suffix should be changed to ".gdt"
- Fix bug: when importing data from Excel with a non-zero row offset,
respect the offset when checking for date strings
- Fix bug: adding a variable to the built-in spreadsheet (GTK 2
version) when there are already 6 variables shown
- Fix bug: handle quotation marks within descriptions of variables
(XML encoding)
- Fix bug: bad behavior when you put an Excel file to open on the
gretl command line, then cancel the import
- Fix bug: X-Y plot with "factor separation" went wrong in some cases
(spotted by Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza)
- Fix bug: weighted least squares with a dummy variable for the
weight crashed gretl when using QR decomposition
- Fix bug: a syntactically incorrect "genr" expression could lead to
a crash (thanks to Steve Walesch for spotting this)
- Fix bug: set panel structure dialog very messed up in the gtk-1.2
version of the GUI program
- Fix bug: Sorting variables by ID in the main window did not work
correctly for more than 9 variables
2004-01-22 version 1.2.1
- Add Cristian Rigamonti's Italian translation
- More flexible and general support for collections of data files or
script files
- Add support for the data files from Davidson & MacKinnon,
Econometric Theory and Methods (ETM)
- Make the NIST linear regression test suite available via a plugin
- Add ARMA model to the variable menu (plus "arma" command) (thanks
to Jack Lucchetti)
- Fix bugs with displaying a TSLS model in the GUI program
- Fix bug in display of actual, fitted and residuals in GUI program
- Fix occasional bug in copying data to clipboard as CSV
- Add a mechanism for configuring gretl as a networked application
under Windows
- Small fixes for data importation
- Don't overwrite CSV datafiles with gretl format data
- Add a logistic model command and menu item
- Fixes for reading of recent RATS databases (thanks to John Frain
for a useful bug report)
- Some updates to the manual and help files
- Enhanced LaTeX equation output (thanks to Alan Isaac for the
suggestion)
- Fixes for several nameless bugs
- Various GUI tweaks
2003-12-14 version 1.2.0
- add "rename" command (rename a variable)
- add "printf" command for generating formatted output
- "delete" command: add the ability to delete specified variables,
identified by name or number
- add "eval" command: syntax as in a "genr" formula; the result of
calculation (or retrieval) is printed then discarded, not added to
the data set as with genr
- Replace the internal workings of "genr" so that it can calculate
dynamically (e.g. "genr y = .6*y(-1) + u"), which in effect makes
the "sim" command redundant
- Make principal components analysis available via the GUI
- Improve formatting of descriptive statistics output when only one
variable is selected
- Allow adding of "influence" values (calculated by the "leverage"
test) to the data set in the GUI program
- When adding a variable to the dataset from a model window, give the
user a chance to edit the name and description
- Windows: add option to emulate Windows look (via WIMP)
- add "--no-restore-data" to R invocation
- Fix for launching R from gretl on Windows XP
- Improve creation of time-series datasets for use in R
- Fix problems created by tabs in the command line
- Two-stage least squares: add list of instruments to printout of
model results; fix crashing bug in printing covariance matrix of
coefficient estimates
- Improve the mechanism for detecting the presence of a lagged
dependent variable in a regression list; also show the
Durbin-Watson stat in addition to Durbin's h when a regression
includes a lagged dependent variable
- Fix bug in graph editing for non-English locales
- genr command: add facility for using date strings in boolean
comparisons, e.g. "genr dummy = t > 1973:4" will work for quarterly
data
- Allow '#' comments in loop constructions
- sim command: allow omission of starting and ending observations, to
simulate over the full sample range; also allow the use of a minus
sign to get the negative of a variable
- VARs: add facility to separate deterministic terms such as trend
and dummies from the other variables in the regression list; add
Durbin-Watson statistic to model printouts; add impulse responses
and variance decompositions
- Improvements to data-editing spreadsheet in gtk-2.0 version
- New, improved dialogs for setting the sample range and sub-
sampling using a dummy variable
- Add color selection to the graph editing dialog and improve the
mechanism for selecting a graph font (only applies if gnuplot has
the "new" PNG driver, i.e. gnuplot 3.8)
- Graphs: add option of removing the top and right border lines, if
the graph does not have a "y2" axis
- minor fixes to the build process
- updates to gtk-1.2 GUI (make more consistent with the gtk-2.0
version)
- Allow for renaming of saved session models and graphs in gtk2
version of program
- Add a "lite" version of gtksourceview to the gtk2 source package
- Add recognition of dated daily data in importing from ASCII: dates
must be like 89/12/31, i.e. YY/MM/DD
- Loops governed by a convergence criterion: set a failsafe maximum
number of iterations, namely 250. This can be altered by setting
the environment variable GRETL_MAX_ITER
- Update to gcc-3.3.1 and mingw-runtime-3.2 for Windows build
2003-10-31 version 1.1.6
- Test release for Fedora (Linux) packaging
2003-10-24 version 1.1.5
- Updates to manual
- Gtk2 version: Make selection dialog tall enough for wls, tsls and
ar model selections
- Model window, graph menu: if there are two independent vars, offer
the option of a 3D fitted/actual plot
- Set sample range: in this dialog, give as default the current
sample range, not the full data range
- When a session uses data imported from a database, be smarter on
saving the session: ensure the script includes a command to open a
datafile (get this saved first if need be)
- Database browser window: close this when a database is selected
- GUI model windows: allow drawing of graphs relating to model data,
even if the sample has been changed since the model was estimated
- Model table: make a LaTeX preview available
- Windows installation: fix typo in name of uninstaller program in
the Programs menu
- Windows version: bug fixes and enhancements for gretl_updater, and
add a simple logging mechanism to aid in trouble-shooting
- Windows: add the ability to print a gnuplot graph directly
- ols command: add '-q' (quiet) option to suppress printing of
results (and add notice of this to gretlcli.hlp)
- Consolidate "webget" code -- one version for all uses
- gtk2 version: replace "system()" calls with g_spawn()
- Add model selection statistics to output of adf command
- Improve recognition of dated data when importing from Excel or
Gnumeric
- Add an error message for an attempt to run TRAMO when the sample
size is > 600
- Fixes for reading of plot range info in graph window in non-English
locales
2003-10-06 version 1.1.4
- Make auto-entry of varname for sampling with dummy smarter
- Fixes for display of data values with huge datasets
- Fix to handle "weird" cases in plotting frequency distributions
- Auto-detect gnuplot's ability to use "filledcurve" style
- Translate a few untranslated strings in gtk-1.2 version
- Graph labels: make 3 labels configurable rather than just 2
- Editing gnuplot commands: fix for accented characters
- Reading CSV files: fix bug in parser for date strings
- NLS: ensure messages printed to the console are not in utf8
- Loosen up a little on "Appending" data: allow for the situation
where the sample range for the added data is not identical to the
original range
- Fixes for printout of fitted, actual and residual, and for
forecasts with standard errors, in the case of missing data
- Fix to gtk2 data spreadsheet (quell warning on appending an
observation)
- Data spreadsheet: give a warning on close if there are unsaved
changes
- Improvements to printing of data values in certain numerical ranges
- Import of CSV or plain text data: if no variable names are given,
construct them automatically ("v1", "v2", etc.)
- 3-D plot command: fix for localized decimal point, and use rxvt to
control gnuplot if xterm is not available
2003-10-01 version 1.1.3
- Fix crashing bug in viewing dataset info
- Improve formatting of "influential observations" test output for
non-English locales
- Correct the sign of the fractional integration parameter estimate
in the periodogram command ("pergm")
- Give first-time gretl users a chance to select a gretl "user
directory" (with ~/gretl being the default)
- Fix problem with running a script in the gretl console, when the
script begins with comments plus blank lines
- Brighten up some menus with stock icons (gtk2 only)
- Use gtksourceview to do syntax highlighting for scripts (gtk2
version only)
- Change function of main-window toolbar edit icon: from launch an
external editor to start a new script
- Fix bug in meantest command: the -o flag was doing the opposite of
what was stated in the manual
- Fix bug in built-in spreadsheet in re. adding variables or
observations
- Ensure that the listing of variables in the main window is updated
after running a script
- Add facility to exclude named observations with smpl command (e.g.
smpl -r obs!="USA")
- Add "nobs()" function in genr: gives the number of valid
(non-missing) observations for a data series
- Improve placement of observation labels on graphs
- Improvements to gnumeric data importer
- Add facility for generating 3-D data plots
- Add "import ASCII" data option
2003-09-09 version 1.1.2
- Fix bug in time-series plot from popup menu in main window
- Fix build problem: "make install" could fail to install the GUI
program under some conditions (thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel for
spotting this)
- Update the Spanish translation
- Win32 version: switch to the native Windows font selection dialog
box (some problems were reported with the modified gtk font
selection on win32)
- Win32 version: update to gtk 2.2.4 and pango 1.2.5
- Library: switch to using the Cephes gamma() code throughout, and
delete some redundant code
2003-09-07 version 1.1.1
- Graph editing: add facility to write labels onto the graph
- Graph editing: allow removal of auto-fitted OLS line
- Graph editing: allow choice of TrueType font if gnuplot supports
this option (requires libgd and freetype)
- Add compaction method (e.g. average, sum) as an attribute of
variables -- settable under Variable/Edit attributes
- Add "outfile" command to send output of selected commands to a
specified file
- In importing data from a database, recognize if a variable of the
same name is already in the working dataset
- Fix memory bug in opening remote database
- Start adding Principal Components Analysis
- Fix "pmax" bug in printing of actual, fitted and residuals
- When using "<-" save mechanism for models, preserve the model info
so it's accessible for genr, etc.
- Fix bug in numbering of auto-generated lagged variables
- Fix bug in parsing of gnuplot { ... } special command list
- Fix bug in model table (wrong coefficient numbering)
- Fix bug: when a file is dragged onto gretl, opening the file failed
if it has a space in its name
- configure: require correct version of GMP (>= 4.0.1)
- Fix bug: gretlcli.exe on win32 didn't find user directory
- Workaround: command-line invocation of gretlw32.exe with datafile
could crash (I think this was a Windows bug)
- Fixes for forecast-with-errors graphs
- Fixes for "influential observations" test calculations, in extreme
cases
- Windows version: update to gtk 2.2.3 runtime
2003-07-23 version 1.1.0
- Extend DATAINFO structure -- allow specification of "display names"
for variables (these are shown in graphs)
- Provide "label" command for setting the description and/or display
name for a variable
- Add script commands for saving and displaying models and graphs
- Fix effect of sample range on the "genr" command
- Improvements to the gretl console (command history, etc.)
- Add the Johansen cointegration test to the gui menus
- Add option to use QR decomposition instead of Cholesky for
calculating regression results
- Fix bug: periodogram command failed in batch mode
- Make uniform() PRNG generate in the standard range 0-1 (rather than
1-100, as it was previously)
- Small modifications to path-searching
- Updates to the Spanish help files
- Activate a few missing translated strings
- Fix "sim" command so it can be used to modify just one observation
in a given series
- Fix bugs associated with starting a dataset by importing from a
database
- Allow access to RATS databases via command line and scripts
- Fixes (I think) for R startup
- Clean-up: remove all wasted array elements
- Update to libtool 1.5
- Update win32 version to gtk version 2.2.2
2003-05-26 version 1.0.9
- Add non-linear least squares ("nls" command, Levenberg- Marquandt
algorithm from minpack, with either analytical or numerical
derivatives)
- Fix focus bug when editing the description for a variable in the
gretl main window
- Add a new means of grabbing fitted values from a regression: "genr
newname = yhat" (parallels "uhat")
- Updates to manual (includes details on new nls command)
- Spanish version: provide access to English help files as well as
Spanish
- Add rudimentary scripting capacity to gnuplot command (can append
"{ ... }" block to gretl gnuplot command, containing literal
gnuplot command lines, each terminated with ";")
2003-05-02 version 1.0.8
- Require lapack
- Fixes to build for Mac OS X
- Avoid duplication of "against time" in model graph menus, when time
is included as a regressor
- Fix bugs in Find dialog
- Correct function that detects whether or not series should be
scaled for time series graphing (case of negative values)
- Fix bug in boxplots with boolean conditions attached
- Ensure all plot windows are not resizable
- Add "leverage" command (uses lapack) to detect leverage points and
influential observations for a given model
- Fix "diff" and "ldiff" commands for panel data sets (i.e. show
missing values as missing)
- Fix bug in editing of varnames and labels (could get onto the wrong
line in some cases)
- Fix gretl's startup routine for Gnu R so that it never over- writes
the file .Rprofile
- Enhancements to Excel importer plugin (better warnings)
- Permit opening Excel or Gnumeric data from initial command- line
invocation of gretl
- Autocorrelation test: add calculation and display of serial
correlation-robust standard errors, if significant at the 5 per
cent level
- Fix brokenness in saving boxplots to session file
- Refinements to CSV import function -- handle space-separated data
with multiple/variable spaces between columns
- Fix bug in range-mean graph when there are missing values at the
start of the data range
- Fix bug in pacf calculation and plot for long lag lengths
- Add experimental "model table" in session icon view (not submitted
for translation yet)
2003-04-09 version 1.0.7
- Correct the attribution of autocorrelation test (Breusch-Godfrey
rather than Breusch-Pagan)
- Fix bug in display of remote database info line (Gtk-2.0 version)
- Use a finer step-size for Hildreth-Lu search
- In GUI program, display Hildreth-Lu plot using gnuplot
- Translate a few more untranslated strings
- Fix bug in title of residual graph
- When the user installs a local copy of a remote database, give the
option of opening it right away
- Add "coeffsum" command: gives the sum of coefficients, and standard
error of the sum, for selected independent variables in a given
model
- Modify the White's test function, so that it doesn't fall over when
a variable and its square are among the original regressors
- Fix drag and drop of data files and script files from desktop or
file manager onto the main gretl window
- Add drag and drop of data series from a database window into the
main gretl window (i.e. into the current data set)
- Add general time-series data compaction function (under Sample
menu)
- Fix various memory-usage bugs revealed by port to Mac OS X
- Fix installation of bcih database so that it works on big- endian
machines too
2003-03-16 version 1.0.6
- minor adjustment to model print output formatting
- fix for correlogram graph (was incompatible with older gnuplot)
- fix a couple of minor gretlcli bugs
- add (optional) LAPACK support for various "advanced" features
- fix time-series attributes of data9-1, data9-10
- prevent normal random generator from outputting NaNs
- fix bug with use of "store" command in a loop, in GUI program
- fix translation problems that disabled some menus when not shown in
English
- fix translation problem that caused a crash when trying to save
data under a different name in non-English versions on Linux
- add new commands, "system" (supports SUR) and "coint2" (Johansen
trace test for cointegration)
- add robust LM test for use with adding/omitting variables in
relation to a model estimated using hccm
- permit comments starting with '#' on first line of script
- change to Mersenne Twister for gretl's PRNG, and supply the
Marsaglia test suite for the PRNG in the gretl source package
- make correlogram and periodogram functions more robust in the face
of weird data
2003-02-20 version 1.0.5
- fix missing translations; fix build of rpm
- add support for Gujarati textbook data files
2003-02-19 version 1.0.4
- add sst() function in genr for Total Sum of Squares of a variable
- fix bug in genr: a long genr command could overflow the space
allocated for variable labels
- fix bugs in graphing: "non-standard" graphs could cause problems
including crashes
- fix bug in coefficient printing: sometimes values were being
truncated at 5 figures
- when dataset is sub-sampled, add dialog offering option to restore
full data range before saving data
- add recognition of environment variables GRETL_PNG_GRAPH_FONT and
GRETL_PNG_GRAPH_FONT_SIZE (e.g. "verdana" and "8") for generation
of PNG graphs when gnuplot is linked to gd, and gd has TrueType
font support enabled
- The sample data files selector and practice scripts selector now
offer a tabbed collection of the available sets of files, and the
associated menu items are simplified
- Replace Box-Pierce statistic with Ljung-Box throughout, and revamp
the correlogram graph
- Add several configuration options to the tramo/seats plugin
- update libtool to 1.4.3 and autoreconf
- raise library revision number to 4
2003-02-04 version 1.0.3
- Add PNG graphs to win32 version, and standardize on PNG graphs for
all display including graph editing
- Add facility to identify labeled data-points in a scatter plot
- further fix to pathnames with .Rprofile for win32
- LaTeX view: fix for dvi file living in a directory with spaces in
its name on win32
- Add option to copy as LaTeX or RTF for the various "Model data"
windows (e.g. forecasts with standard errors)
- Reorganize management of win32 registry entries
- Add tramo/seats for win32 version, and make tramo support the
default for Linux
- In window displaying a single data, add menu options to show the
series sorted, to graph the variable, and to format the data values
to a specified number of significant digits or decimal places
- Fix bug in command echo for "store" and a few others
- Add selector for variables to be saved when doing "Save as" or
"Export"
- Add facility to browse for programs under the Preferences, General,
Programs tab
- Add facility to copy data to clipboard as CSV
- Update win32 version to gtk version 2.2.0
- Bring various details of the gtk-1.2 build in line with the gtk-2.0
version
- Add configuration option to avoid libreadline dependency
("--without-readline") and build the gretl rpm without readline
- Updates to manual
- Raise shared library revision number to 3
2002-12-09 version 1.0.2
- generalize support for X-12-ARIMA to gtk-1.2 version, and win32
version (TRAMO/SEATS proving is more difficult)
- make x-12-arima support the configure default, if the x12a binary
is found
- add installation script for tramo program (in utils)
- make range-mean graph editable via gui
- fix utf8/character encoding issue with editing gnuplot commands and
sending the commands to gnuplot
- fix bug in test for balanced panel and reading of panel structure
- panel models: implement a valid autocorrelation test, and make the
ARCH test unavailable
- fix bug in generating lagged variables with panel data
- put a limit of 1024 on the number of forecasts that can be called
for, in the "forecast with standard errors" routine (could exhaust
virtual memory)
- add menu item to restructure a panel data set from stacked
cross-section to stacked time series
- create data set using internal spreadsheet: fix bug in the setting
of date strings
- fix bug in invocation of GNU R under Windows (needed to replace "\"
with "/" in paths for use by Rgui.exe)
2002-11-27 version 1.0.1
- fix to configure script in re. glib-2.0
- fix missing name of dependent var in gui mpols printout
- remove RTF and LaTeX items from mpols copy options (not yet
implemented) in gui2
- fix bug in saving gnuplot commands to file
- updates to updater function in gui program (both gui and gui2)
- add rudimentary plugin support for TRAMO and X-12-ARIMA
(experimental, and disabled by default)
- fix font encoding for postscript graphs in gtk-1.2 version of
gretl_x11 (also make postscript graphs in color by default)
- fix bug in automatic generation of lags for regression (the command
was not getting recorded properly in the log file)
- fix bug in model printout when F() is undefined (line-break was
missing)
- fix bug in LaTeX output when a coefficient equals zero
- make "sim" command available in loops (and update docs)
- raise "revision" number of *nix library
2002-11-15 version 1.0
- change *nix library name to libgretl-1.0
- improve sizing of some windows
- incorporate new translations
- update appearance of gtk-1.2 version of gui
- fix the stats available in connection with a LAD model
- open the champagne (hope this is not premature!)
2002-11-06 version 1.0pre4 (for translators)
- fix bug in progress bar when loading large data set
- fix bad "smpl -r" bug in gretlcli
- add Ramsey's RESET test (command "reset")
- improve consistency of editing commands
- more translation fixes
- small LaTeX output fixes
- fix gnuplot PNG output for gnuplot version 3.8
- fix encoding for gnuplot postscript output under NLS
- fix pango encoding issue for gnuplot axis label strings
- fix gnuplot "keyspec" bug
- add auto-scaling of gui windows if the user has selected a large
font
- add printing of rho (used in quasi-differencing) to LaTeX output
for corc and hilu models
- enhanced support for Wooldridge data files
- add "-t" flag to print command: print variables to ten significant
digits
- improve saving of scalar variables, and documentation of same
- updates to full manual
- make names and labels for monthly and quarterly dummies more
descriptive
2002-10-10 version 1.0pre3
- improve accuracy of calculation of standard errors, and numerical
accuracy on MS Windows in general
- make gretl databases installable in user directory as well as
system database directory
- make console output scroll to cursor in gtk2 version
- fix more translation issues
- fix bug in normality chi-square test for large n
- fix bug that prevented CUSUM plot from displaying
- fix normality of residual test: print to model window was
incomplete
- fix translation issue in LaTeX print of equation
- backport fix for impulse plot to gtk-1.2 version
- fix bug at exit of gretlcli with "quit" and no filename
- fixes for bugs in gnumeric file reader
- fixes for Excel reader -- handle missing obs and Far East info
- fix for gretlcli under NLS: ensure that the translations come out
in the local encoding, not utf-8
- remove Gtk 2.0 right click menu on text windows
- update translations and integrate the French translation
2002-09-20 version 1.0pre2 (pre1 was "for translators only")
- add range-mean graph option to GUI Variable menu, and as new
command "rmplot"
- add retrievable variable $pd = data periodicity
- add min() and max() functions to the functions available for use
with the "genr" command
- add Least Absolute Deviations regression ("lad" command)
- fix bugs in saving output to named file, in both gretlcli and gui
program
- fix bug in boxplots for languages other than English
- fix error in df in sample script ps4-2.inp
- fix translation of date strings in gretl output
- linux: move plugins to ${prefix}/lib/gretl
- gnome 2.0: use gconf apparatus
- gtk 2.0: fix remove/add toolbar breakage; change name of program
back to "gretl" and "gretl_x11" (not "gretl2", "gretl2_x11")
- revamp and internationalize TeX and RTF printing functions
including those for summary stats and correlation matrix
- make TeX format available for all model windows
- remove HTML print/copy options: can't maintain four formats with
internationalization!
2002-08-25 version 0.999
- add support for gtk 2.0 and gnome 2.0
- enhanced gui with gtk 2.0
- add "make check" target to test against the NIST reference data
files for numerical accuracy
- improve support for building on win32
- bug fixes in boxplot functions
- always show 6 significant figures for coefficient estimates and
standard errors in regression output
- numerous NLS/translation fixes, improvements
- NLS translation of TeX model results
- bug fixes for Excel importer
- reorganization of gui source files
- fix bug in random variable generation in gui
- add support for data files from Jeffrey Wooldridge's econometrics
textbook
- scrap ugly overloading of "clear_model" function
- fix miscellaneous bugs revealed by valgrind
- raise library version to 16.0.0
2002-07-09 version 0.998
- increment library version to 15.0.0
- update Spanish translations
- fixes to RPM build process
- switch to more accurate (cephes) algorithms for p-values
- add materials for building gretl on win32
- try to support LC_NUMERIC conversion automagically
- add option to Preferences to enable/disable localized LC_NUMERIC
- fix listings of recently opened files on menus under NLS
- fix up formatting of fitted/residual printout
- activate translations of "session" popup menus
- extend LaTeX menu for models with choice of saving as full document
or tex fragment for inclusion in document
- correct over-eager rejection of some variable names in data files
("c" and "C")
- recompile gretl_updater.exe with new zlib dll
- fixes to graph editing (this got broken by NLS changes)
2002-05-28 version 0.997
- increment library version to 14.0.1
- NLS fixes: disable "foreign" LC_NUMERIC for the present; gnuplot
graphs should work now; some missing translations are activated;
minor formatting improvements
- screen scalars out of variable list in graph selection dialogs
- ensure appropriate headers are included in workbook.c
- enable daily data in gretl databases
- fix bug in daily calendar (printed dates wrong at end of some
years)
- portability fixes to configure script
2002-05-24 version 0.996
- Raise library version to 14.0.0
- closing a session clears the selector dialog presets
- fix bug with scalar data and the data-editing spreadsheet
- revert boxplots to the older selection dialog (so user can add
boolean conditions)
- Regressions: print warning when data matrix is close to singularity
- add Gnu Multiple Precision plugin for running multiple precision
OLS regressions (unix only, so far)
- Add Spanish translations and make enabling NLS the default
- Try to fix the win32 GUI font for high-res monitors
- tweaks to the configure script
- updates to the help files and manual
2002-05-15 version 0.995
- Raise library version to 13.0.0
- numerous small updates to facilitate internationalization
- give the user a choice of delimiters (comma, space or tab) when
importing or exporting "CSV" data
- strengthen checks on invalid variable names in data files
- improve recognition of scalars versus vectors in genr
- fix bug in Create Dataset: undated data appeared as "annual"
- add descriptive report on dataset to Data menu
- fix bug in writing Utilities/R session: R data set was being
written in wrong (CSV) format
- fix bug: datafile name was not being cleared on Close Session
- refinements to Makefiles: don't expand CFLAGS multiple times
- handle spaces in filenames when stacking the "open" command
- fix bugs with editing gnuplot graphs
- get win32 LaTeX view working properly
- bugfixes for gnumeric and excel spreadsheet importers
- bugfix: unitialized data in cointegration test with constant
- add new, improved dialog box for specifying models, etc.
- remove all system() calls on win32
- switch to a more "standard" (I think) presentation of WLS
statistics
- fix some subtle bugs with the genr() function (scalars versus
vectors in conjunction with sub-sampled data)
- add checks for illegal variable names when importing from CSV,
Excel and Gnumeric
2002-04-21 version 0.994
- fix bugs in win32 copy to clipboard
- fix RTF printing of correlation matrix
- fix bug in genr (generating a scalar when data set is sub- sampled)
- fix bug: editing periodogram graph using GUI
- partially update docs
- distinguish between $T (number of obs used in last model) and $nobs
(number of obs in current sample range) in genr expressions
- fix bug in gnuplot PNG display for remote X sessions
- add configure option "--disable-png-graphics" to revert to
old-style behaviour of gnuplot in case of problems
- remove upwanted dependency on libgcc_s in Red Hat binary rpm
- update versions of gtk and glib for win32
- fix build problems revealed by the Debian package build
2002-04-15 version 0.993
- add option to specify lag order in autocorrelation test; also add
Box-Pierce and Ljung-Box stats to test output
- fix brokenness in Excel importer on win32
- fixes to setmiss command (console and script modes)
- enable pop-up menu for all gnuplot graphs under Linux/unix; also
add facility to print graphs directly under gnome, and to zoom
graphs on X11 display
- make DVI viewer configurable and make "latex view" functions work
on win32
- add inclusive inequality operators '>=' and '<=' to genr
- fix bug in genr: operator priority was not being fully respected in
all cases
- fix bug in Replace function for script edit window
- fix bug that crept in, in reading old-format data files
- fix bug: possible loss of precision when writing data file
- fix bug in statistical reportage with weighted least squares, when
the weight is not a dummy, but has some zero values
- add if, else, endif flow control for scripting
- add noecho command to suppress echo of commands in script output
- modify "print" command to support printing of string literals
- add menu item to find a variable in the main window
- improve context help in script windows
- extend LaTeX printing of models to Cochrane-Orcutt and Hildreth- Lu
estimators
- add edit/print taskbar to more windows
2002-04-01 version 0.992
- bounds checking for critical values look-up; also add this as a
regular gretlcli command, "critical"
- add sanity checks for regression commands and ADF test
- add importer plugins for Gnumeric and Excel workbooks
- add "Append data" menu item
- fix bug in "Create data set" functions
2002-03-20 version 0.991
- fix several "out of bounds" bugs kindly reported by Tavis Barr
- streamline the online help system
- in GUI, allow deletion of any variable (popup menu)
- go to a two-dimensional data array
- get the data status indicator working better when the nulldata
command is used
- add menu items to set missing value codes for a particular series
or the entire data set, and add "setmiss" command
- changing or clearing the data set now closes all model and stats
windows (prevents crashes and garbage)
- add scalar datatype
- add progress indicator for reading/writing large data files
- add a refresh to the remote databases window after down- loading
and installing a database
- add handling for daily data (probably needs more work)
- update to gnuplot 3.7.2 in win32 distribution
- prepare the program sources for internationalization via GNU
gettext; add a blank .pot file to the source package
2002-02-27 version 0.99
- add option for HTTP proxy when contacting gretl data server
- fix bugs in drag and drop under Windows
- fix crashing bug when trying to save a data file with over (about)
120 variables
- fix bug in editing new data header info
- add mechanism to record sample when estimating a model, so that
subsequent tests on that model can be referred to the same sample
- add "native" printing of window contents under win32 and gnome
- enhance boxplots command, allowing for boolean expressions to limit
the sample for individual plots in a comparative group of plots
- add editing toolbar to editable windows with search/replace and
undo
- add context help (click on a command and press the "?" button) for
the edit command script window
- correct typos in supplied data files data3-2 and data8-3
- add "critical" command (gretl console and GUI script mode only), to
print critical values for a selected distribution
- add pvalue() function to the set of options available under the
genr command
- improve handling of scripts opened in the GUI (including a prompt
to save before running if changes have been made)
2002-02-11 version 0.98
- fig bug affecting frequency distributions and the test for
normality of residuals
- improve functionality relating to saving of data files
- fix some build problems
- add more functionality to boxplots
- several fixes and enhancements to "session" mechanism
- better handling of empty data header info
- substantial code cleanups in the interest of adding API
documentation
- allow copying LaTeX equation representation of models to clipboard;
also improve the typsetting of these
- change default user directory to ~/gretl under unix
- add option to make cwd rather than userdir the default for file
opening and saving
- Change the default data format to XML (optionally gzipped) but
retain backward compatibility with old ascii data format
- add dependency on libxml (dll suplied for win32)
- switch from ".dat" to ".gdt" as default filename extension for
gretl datafiles (but add option to GUI to use ".dat")
- changing to storing data header info in buffer rather than using
repeated file I/O
- add search/replace dialog to window for editing scripts; also
Edit/Paste menu choice and choice of fixed font
- add drag and drop support for datafiles under win32, register the
.gdt suffix for gretl datafiles, and add an icon for these files
2001-12-14 version 0.97
- fix breakage of var command in GUI
- add facility to draw boxplots
- add various formats to copy of models to clipboard (HTML, RTF,
LaTeX)
- enable LaTeX and RTF copying for correlation matrix and summary
statistics windows
- Add the LMF statistic (Kiviet, 1986) for the autocorrelation LM
test
- Add prompt to save data on exit, if the data set has been changed
or newly constructed
- Fixes to BOX1 datafile reading function
- small fixes to display of databases
- revert behavior in case of taking logs of series with non- positive
values (i.e. fail gracefully)
- add initial gnome support
- convert manual to SGML (DocBook) and update
- support directory names with spaces (yuck) under win32
- under win32, use registry instead of system-wide config file
libgretl.cfg and per-user gretl.rc; also use native win32 dialog
boxes for more functions
- add check for GRETL_HOME environment variable
- make gnuplot command configurable under Preferences (meant for
win32)
- add a menu bar to the spreadsheet window
2001-07-26 version 0.96
- update to gtkextra version 0.99.16
- fix bug in Preferences/Toolbar entries
2001-07-17 version 0.95
- update to gtkextra version 0.99.15
- fix crash bug on opening a saved "session"
- fix bug that broke the "run" command on win32
2001-06-14 version 0.94
- make "false" the default for the automatic gretl update query on
startup
- catch errors in ar, tsls and scatters commands due to insufficient
arguments
2001-05-11 version 0.93
- fix problem with printing of actual, fitted and residual in the
case of a binary dependent variable
- CVS data export: put quote marks around the dates or observation
marker strings
2001-04-23 version 0.92
- library version goes to 6.0.0
- fixes to pprintf() function
- add "pooled OLS" model command and panel diagnostics test (fixed
effects and random effects models)
- various fixes suggested by lclint
- fix bug with zero return from, e.g., auxreg() when there's an error
and the return should be non-zero
- fix bug: logs command in script mode producing spurious error
- fix bug: when starting a new data set from a gretl database,
datainfo->markers was not set to 0, which could produce a crash
- add options for compacting data when adding a higher-frequency
series from a database to the working data set
2001-04-03 version 0.91
- library version goes to 5.0.0
- Disable saving anything other than native data file with extension
".dat" (safety measure)
- Make backup of data file when saving under same name
- Further improvements/fixes to gnuplot graphing routines
- Add option to edit plot commands directly, for a graph saved as a
session icon
- GNU R: save cross-sectional data as a "dataframe"
- Remove the "with controls" gnuplot menu items: edit plots via the
session window instead
- Institute consistent file dialogs: using gtkextra under X, and
native Microsoft dialogs under Windows
- Bug fix in pprintf() function
2001-03-28 version 0.90
- Raise version number to 0.90 reflecting fact that the feature set
for version 1.0 is now complete
- Raise library version to 4.0.0 due to changed interfaces
- Bugfixes and improvements for built-in spreadsheet
- Make more statistics accessible under model data menu
- try to auto-detect script versus data file, when given one program
argument and no flag
- add gretl_model_new() to lib
- cleanups in library code and headers
- enable frequency plot graphs in console mode
- add command-line options (for GUI program) to open a gretl database
on start-up.
- add "t" facility to genr (can say, e.g., "genr dum = t>1979.4" for
quarterly data, without previously generating t).
- add "for loop" facility with auto index variable
- auto-save changes to scripts in file viewer windows before running
- TODO: manual is not fully updated yet
2001-03-16 version 0.70
- Changed a few library interfaces, and so raised the library version
number (now 3.0.0)
- update manual (please consult it on the new options below)
- add sub-sampling based on a boolean condition (smpl -r)
- make it possible to restore full sample after sub-sampling based on
a dummy variable or boolean condition
- add graphing option: scatter of Y against X, with the Y values
colored differently depending on value of a given dummy
- suppress echo of varnames in commands (e.g. summary) where a full
list of vars is constructed automatically
- improve mechanism for adding/deleting files from "recent files"
lists, and add list for command files
- improvements to numerical format in printing of data series
- fix a couple of graphing bugs (impulse plots not working, frequency
plot against gamma distribution wrong)
- fix precedence of boolean operators in genr expressions ("&" comes
before "|", but both of these come after "<", ">" and "="), and add
"!=" operator
- mods to gtk items: disallow resizing of dialog boxes, make clist
titles passive
- fix "on exit" bug if several models estimated and not all have
associated saved commands
- fix memory bug when switching datasets
- fix issues with displaying data, with very large datasets
2001-03-04 version 0.69
- change one library interface to permit error box if gnuplot command
fails (and so raise library version number)
- bugfix: after running lmtest for non-linearity, the wrong degrees
of freedom were being shown, not in the auxiliary regression
window, but in the test summary appended to the model for which the
lmtest was run
- bugfix: with a genr command from the GUI, even if it was erroneous
it was being copied into the command log
- bugfix: parsing of genr expression without fully explicit
parentheses failed under some circumstances
- bugfix: multiple scatterplots did not display under MS Windows
- bugfix: doing add/omit in GUI did not update the model used as the
default for coeff() and such in genr commands
- console: improve/fix recall of mistyped command using the up arrow
key; respond to typing only at the prompt
- genr: add '&', '|' and '!' logical operators
- add program icon for X11
2001-02-26 version 0.68
- fix functions associated with opening datafiles
- fix brokenness in logging of commands to script
- "remember" models generated via GUI so that genr functions such as
coeff() work properly
- make Save/Export data menu items more compact
- Fix bug in (not) setting file extensions in some file "save"
actions
- Small improvements to "gretl console"
2001-02-21 version 0.67
- cleanups in datafile writing routines (avoid excessive trailing
zeros in data)
- make search in list boxes wrap
- fix bug: user configuration of toolbar had no effect
- fix bug: if a var is duplicated in list of regressors, gretlcli
crashed
- fix infelicity: if a var is duplicated in regressor list, gui
displayed blank model window along with error message
- fix bug: "gretl website" entry on toolbar under unix/Linux worked
only if netscape was already running
2001-02-15 version 0.66
- add string search to listing of Ramanathan data files
- add "plugin" for looking up critical values of statistics
- add a toolbar (partly configurable under Preferences)
- fix to deletion of auto-generated plotting vars
- add option to view confidence intervals for coefficients (under
Model data menu in model window)
- add the Ramanathan practice file ps2-1.inp
2001-02-06 version 0.65
- fix crashing bug in adding data to dataset from model window
- update bundled gtkextra to release 0.99.13
- various "internal" bugfixes and cleanups
- minor fixes to graphing routines, datafile saving
2001-02-02 version 0.64
- add tooltips to show full path of previously-opened files
- get "previous files" list working on win32
- minor improvements to file listing routines
- add (optional) sampling distribution graph to test calculator
- add -m (impulses) flag to gnuplot command
- fixes to auto-update mechanism (plus add documentation)
2001-01-26 version 0.63
- add gretl manpage
- add p-value finder to GUI
- add "hypothesis test calculator" to GUI
- fix error in normal batch p-value function
2001-01-15 version 0.62
- allow comment lines starting with '#' in input files
- allow estimation of a model with df = zero
- add CUSUM (parameter stability) test for OLS models
- fix to path reading for win32 (spaces in path)
- fixes to difference of means test, difference of variance test, for
situation where sample lengths are different
- small fixes to manual
2000-12-09 version 0.61
- fix to configure process for gtkextra
2000-12-08 version 0.60
- various fixes to distribution files
- change default user dir to $HOME/.gretl
- fixes to icon file selector
- basic link to GNU R
- revise PDF manual
- revise "scatters" command (multiple scatterplots) and add to gui
- add read/write of gzip-compressed data files (see store command)
- move descriptions of data files and practice scripts into separate
files (no longer hard-coded into gretl)
- add new data files from Ramu Ramanathan
- update to gtkextra version 0.99.12
- add installer program for win32
- fix context help bug
- renaming of various components (library is now libgretl, cli
program is now gretlcli, some directories have been renamed)
2000-11-24 version 0.50
- MS Windows-only, was not really released
2000-11-18 version 0.40
- add critical value to printout of correlation matrix
- add capacity to read gretl databases from remote server
- add built-in data decompression with zlib
- rename exported library functions, avoiding leading underscore
- add libtool versioning
2000-11-03 version 0.32
- Add capacity to read BOX1-format data files
- Add lists of recently opened files to file menus
- fix various bugs connected with "session" concept
- fix gtkextra headers bug in make process
2000-10-20 version 0.31
- add gamma distribution to pvalue command
- fix some more bugs
- hush gtk warnings in win32 version
2000-10-15 version 0.30
- introduce experimental "session" idea
- update manual
- add "pergm" (periodogram) command. Also see "Spectrum" under the
GUI Variable menu
- add maxlag parameter to corrgm command; also add printing of
Box-Pierce Q stat, and partial autocorrelations
- fix up "delete" command ("insufficient args" bug)
- clean up gnuplot background code for gnuplot controller
- delete extra variables after chow test
- minor fixes to LaTeX printing
- use proper pointers to keep track of multiple windows
- add "max p-value" statement to regression printout
- put back Durbin-Watson printout line for hccm, tsls
- fix inconsistency with docs in setting of the break point for the
Chow test
- more fixes to csv file reading
- bug fix in freq plot after freq print
- update sample label when excluding missing obs
- update iconfilesel and gtksheet to gtk+extra-0.99.11
- configure: use installed gtkextra if available
- substantial code cleanups and speedups in GUI.
2000-06-14 version 0.2i
- improve consistency in GUI w.r.t. opening of data files and
databases
- update manual and help files
- add "delete" command (trash last variable)
- fix potential data files paths bug
- fix hsk bug (aux regression could fail silently)
- add some data files from William Greene's book
- add "while" syntax to command loop mechanism (useful for iterated
least squares -- tested on Greene's example 11.3 of nonlinear
estimation). See manual.
- fix sample-length bug in add, omit
- some more informative error messages from genr
- activate "add" and "omit" for logit, probit
- make covariance matrix available for logit, probit
- add more error trapping for "add"
- code cleanup in compare.c
- can capture log-likelihood in genr with "$lnl" after logit, probit
2000-06-09 version 0.2h
- add estimation of logit and probit models and update manual
- fixes to "configure" script (gtk, termcap, paths.h) after
compilation on HPUX
- eslclient creates user dir if it doesn't exist
- add (experimental) "parenthesizer" for genr expressions
- rearrange "summary" output
- rename Windows dll
- fix bug in "fcast" command
2000-06-01 version 0.2g
- "smpl -o" drops all observations with missing values
- binary datafiles can be saved in single or double precision (-s or
-o flags)
- Binary datafile saving added to GUI
- Can add case markers from file to an open data set
- allow for a comment line at the top of a database .idx file (and
display it in GUI)
- code cleanups
- delete redundant stuff
- improve some string handling functions
- fix win32 path-searching bug?
2000-05-24 version 0.2f
- updates to manual
- add handler for Penn World Table
- improve handling of native databases
- reformat some output
- add % operator in genr
- add -o flag to "smpl" command for sampling via a dummy variable
mask.
- GUI: where appropriate, clicking on a var in the main window will
pop its ID # into an open dialog box.
- add fcasterr to GUI, and improve graphing of forecasts
- move setobs from Data to Sample menu
- add "Gretl console" to GUI (under File menu) and update manual
- add to path-searching for datafiles called from scripts (include
the script dir in the search)
2000-05-10 version 0.2e
- minor changes to GUI menus
- add xpm icon for X
- correct printout of t-stats for AR coefficients
- correct wasteful malloc in xpxxpy function
- better printout for F-statistic
- add discussion of NIST reference datasets to manual
- add NIST datasets to package
- add some error-checking and reporting for datafile opening
- various fixes to "genr"
- search for libesl.cfg in dir where executable resides (win32,
Dirk's idea)
- improve handling of constants in corr, corrgm
- fix error messages from corc_hilu
- rename eslclnt.exe as eslclient.exe (win32)
- fix paths in win32 (helpfile and executable, for rerunning
commands)
2000-05-05 version 0.2d
- improvements to manual
- fix wrong error message for zero weight var in wls
- explicit check for degeneracy in figuring summary stats
- add median(), var(), cov() to functions in genr
- add "spearman" command (rank correlation)
- add "runs" command (runs test for randomness)
- fix bug in calculation of rho hat
- fix lengths of series created by diff, etc, in relation to smpl
2000-05-01 version 0.2c
- add setobs command
- add seed command
- manual: add section on panel data, improve "genr" section
- more CSV bugfixes
- make adf, coint commands more informative
- add "paneldum" (for panel data) to genr command
2000-04-28 version 0.2b
- add fcasterr command
- many fixes in response to comments from Ramu Ramanathan and Dirk
Eddelbuettel
- improve Makefiles
- bugfix in binary datafile handling
- update manual
2000-04-22 version 0.2a
- add arch, sim and multiply commands
- many bugfixes after running numerous test files
- further code cleanups
- improvements in printing forecasts
- fix memory leaks
2000-04-14 version 0.2
- many fixes for greater consistency with esl
- printout improvements
- internal code cleanups
- bug fixes (notably for CSV file handling)
2000-04-05 version 0.1z
- add a gui controller for gnuplot graphs
- many bugfixes
- reorganize (simplify) command-line arguments
- more updates to documentation
2000-03-27 version 0.1y
- improvements and bugfixes to CSV file handling
- improvements to "add" and "omit" commands
- add "coint" command (cointegration test)
2000-03-23 version 0.1x
- many small bugfixes
- add GNU autoconf apparatus for configuring/compiling
- updates to documentation
2000-02-29 version 0.1w
- fixes to build process
- add iconic file selector
- add "export CSV" function
- bug fixes to database reading routines
2000-02-22 version 0.1v
- add White's standard errors (hccm command)
- update help files
- Make model stats (e.g. ess) available for adding to data set in
gui, under Model data menu.
- Add option to display values of selected variables, as well as
"all".
- Fix pvalue in command-line client so that it does not act
interactively when supplied with all params on the command line.
- Add facility to edit the full data header (.hdr) file in gretl
(under Data menu).
- Activate the "Add observation" feature in ssheet; add a similar
"Insert Observation" option. Minimal testing so far.
- Fix (I think) bug in setup of new spreadsheet data set.
- Give "infobox" feedback when importing database series.
2000-02-13 version 0.1u
- save data files in GNU Octave format
- updates to documentation
2000-02-08 version 0.1t
- gretl adopted as GNU program
- add context-sensitive help for command dialogs
- add file, save for model output windows
- add search facility for help file, database windows
2000-02-02 version 0.1s
- Fixes to Makefiles
- Improvements to loop mode (Monte Carlo simulations)
2000-01-31 version 0.1r
- Initial public release
