gretl
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| Developed by | The gretl Team |
| Initial release | January 31, 2000 |
| Latest release | 1.7.4 / March 21, 2008 |
| Preview release | Through CVS |
| Written in | C |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Multilingual (8) |
| Development status | Active |
| Genre | Econometric software |
| License | GPL |
| Website | gretl.sourceforge.net |
gretl is an open-source software application for compiling and interpreting data mainly for econometrics. It is an acronym for Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library. It has a graphical user interface and can be used together with X-12-ARIMA, TRAMO/SEATS, and R. It is written in C, uses GTK as widget toolkit for creating its GUI, and uses gnuplot for generating graphs. As a complement to the GUI it also has a command line interface.
gretl includes the possibility to output models as LaTeX files. Its own data format is XML, and it can also import Excel, Gnumeric, OpenDocument Spreadsheet, Stata, EViews, RATS 4, GNU Octave, Comma Separated Values, PcGive, JMulTi, and ASCII files. It can export to GNU Octave, GNU R, Comma Separated Values, JMulTi, and PcGive file formats.
Besides English gretl is also available in Basque, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.
gretl has been reviewed several times in the Journal of Applied Econometrics: GRETL: Econometric software for the GNU generation, GRETL: 1.6.0 and its numerical accuracy, Teaching undergraduate econometrics with GRETL. There is also a review of gretl in the Journal of Statistical Software: gretl 1.7.3.
[edit] History
- Version 0.1r was released on January 31, 2000
- Version 0.2 was released on April 14, 2000
- Version 0.30 was released on October 15, 2000
- Version 0.40 was released on November 18, 2000
- Version 0.60 was released on December 12, 2000
- Version 0.70 was released on March 16, 2001
- Version 0.90 was released on March 28, 2001
- Version 1.0 was released on November 15, 2002
- Version 1.1.0 was released on July 23, 2003
- Version 1.2.0 was released on November 14, 2003
- Version 1.3.0 was released on November 15, 2004
- Version 1.4.0 was released on June 29, 2005
- Version 1.5.0 was released on December 15, 2005
- Version 1.6.0 was released on September 13, 2006
- Version 1.7.0 was released on November 27, 2007
- Version 1.7.4 was released on March 21, 2008
