On Sat, 19 Sep 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote: > I was trying out whether there are capabilities of 'omit' of which I > wasn't aware, and with 1.10.2 on Win8.1 this reproducibly crashes (=end > of life for the gretl instance) for me: > > <hansl-crash> > open denmark > list all = IBO IDE LRM > > var 2 all > > list lag1 = lags(1, all) > list lags12 = lags(2, all) > list lag2 = lags12 - lag1 > > omit lag2 > </hansl-crash> > > According to the 'omit' documentation, this should work; at least there > are no exceptions for 'system' and/or 'var' estimations in the > explanations. (But I admit that I wasn't really expecting it to work, so > the reference probably needs to be corrected.)
The doc needs revision: "omit" for VARs is supposed to be just for any exogenous variables. The crash was due to trying to find the length of the (non-existent) original list of exogenous regressors; that's now fixed in CVS. Allin
