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GNU Regression, Econometrics and Time-Series Library
- clircle 4y agoWhat's the point given that R exists?
- zhdc1 4y agoGretl was released back in 2000, well before R gained enough traction be become one of the main programming languages for statistical computing.
- michaericalribo 4y agoR itself was first released in 1993, and is based on S / S-Plus which date to the 70s...moreover, these have been standard tools since the 80s at least, well before Gretl...
- nerdponx 4y agoR was considered "just a stats package" until the last 10-15 years.
- goosedragons 4y agoThe S of the 70s and 80s was a different beast. It was more macro based like SAS. R really didn't start to gain traction until the 2000s.
- bachmeier 4y agoR's a programming language. Gretl is a GUI program that was originally created for teaching econometrics. (You may not be aware that Gretl has been around for many years, so it's a legit question.)
- HWR_14 4y agoIt was invented so people could learn econometrics or for professors to use to assign econometric homework?
- tomrod 4y agoDifferent user space. This competes with STATA and other canned package delivery applications.
- tomrod 4y agoI used GRETL some on graduate school. Thanks for the reminder. Ultimately I wroteost of my own in Matlab, C, and Python. GRETL at the time wasn't consistent to the results in texts books (not always the fault of GRETL!).
- spaniard89277 4y agoI've tried gretl and liked it, but scripting with it was challenging IIRC.