[Gretl-users] Gretl request

[Allin Cottrell]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Daniel Arribas wrote:

> I have a problem when I try to install gretl on Ubuntu 7.10. 
> I´ve tried both the binaries and from source. Apparently I do 
> success with the binaries since gretl´s icon shows up on 
> Applications, but when i click on it, nothing happens. 

What packages are you using?  The ones from 
http://packages.debian.org/gretl or ...?

To troubleshoot the program, open a Terminal window and type

gretl <Enter>

You should presumably see some sort of error message.

If you want to try building from source, I guess you'd have to 
uninstall the gretl binary package first.

> One more question: is there any way to generate a new variable 
> which is the rank of an already existing one (so that biggest 
> value on the existing variable gets 1, second biggest 2, and so 
> on...).

I think what you want is

genr y = ranking(x)

Allin Cottrell