[Gretl-users] Suggestions for improvements of gretl

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Andreas Karlsson schrieb:
>
>> When I use gretl in my teaching for students in statistics or
>> econometrics at a basic level, it is as a replacement for Minitab or
>> EViews. To let them do the tasks I am giving them, it would be to hard
>> for them to write scripts and use other programming skills.

> What we meant is that you or me or somebody else that knows the
> scripting stuff can write function packages that can be loaded (e.g. by
> your students) and used point-and-click-wise. Users then would not have
> to write (or even look at) scripts for that.
>
> AFAIR there's a section in the user guide about this.

Yes, this is somewhat experimental at present, but I think it's a 
promising avenue for future development.  As Jack mentioned, we 
have been trying to shake the bugs out of the more advanced 
scripting facilities, with the idea that "function authors" -- who 
know their gretl but don't necessarily want to mess with 
programming in C -- can contribute substantial functionality.

Allin.