This is a fork of the GNU regression, econometrics and time-series library.
Gretl (GNU regression, econometrics and time-series library) comprises libgretl, a shared library which provides various functions relating to econometric estimation, a command-line client program and a gui client, using GTK+.
Gretl is free software under the GNU General Public License, a copy of which is provided in the source package ("COPYING"), and comes with abolutely no warranty.
Libgretl is based on the stand-alone command-line econometrics program ESL, originally written by Ramu Ramanathan of the Department of Economics at UC-San Diego.
To find out more about gretl, please look at the manual (under "doc" in source package) and/or the online help, which is available in two somewhat different versions for the command-line and gui client programs. Also, gretl has a web home at
For configuration and installation guidance, see the file INSTALL.
Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University cottrell@wfu.edu