Hi Seb,
On 12 June 2020 at 15:59, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | Package: gretl | Version: 2020b-1 | Severity: wishlist | | Hi Dirk, | | gretl is able to take advantage of X-13ARIMA-SEATS (a.k.a. x13as) for | performing seasonal adjustment of time series. I know. There was some back and forth about that between Allin and myself. I think I even supported it in the past. | x13as is now packaged in Debian (though in the non-free archive area), so it | would be nice if gretl could take advantage of it. | | At least, a Suggests relationship should be added (note that a Recommends or a | Depends is not possible, since x13as is non-free; see Policy §2.2.1). | | Quickly looking at the source code of gretl, I am under the impression that it | may need to be slightly patched in order to find the x13as executable (it seems | to hardcode a Windows .exe path). But I did not really investigate, so I leave | that up to you. I may not have time for that. I can add the Suggests, but the rest is a little out of reach. It probably just needs it in the PATH, eveything else would be a litle anti-unixish. Also, in case you had not seen it, Christoph Sax and I extended his (CRAN) package seasonal to automagically download x13as and use it behind the scenes. If R scripting is of interest / use to you that is another option. (Same non-freenees for x13as of course though commerce ships Fortran which Christoph and I turn into x13binary (on GitHub) eg for Windows. Dirk | Best, | | -- | ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot | ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer | ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ http://sebastien.villemot.name | ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ http://www.debian.org -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
