On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 4:19 AM Sven Schreiber <sven.schrei...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Am 19.01.2023 um 09:22 schrieb Marcin Błażejowski: > > Hi, > > when we perform tobit command with --guiet flag we sometimes get the > following message: "Warning: couldn't improve criterion (gradient = > 6.04477e-06)", which per se makes estimation not so quiet. So, the question > is: shall we leave current behavior or make 'tobit --quiet' really quiet? > > If the later, I wrote a simple patch which suppress any messages (attached). > Another possibility would be adding '--silent' flag, which I could do either? > > Personally I think that choosing "quiet" doesn't mean that I don't want to > see warning messages, so the current behavior is OK. "silent" could be a > possibility, but then I think we would have to do it for all estimators, not > just for tobit out of coincidence. Right now I think the guideline is more or > less that "silent" exists for tests and for system estimation (where even > quiet prints a little bit of regular output). > > I believe there's a workaround to really suppress all output: Wrap it in an > "outfile" block: > > string temp > > outfile --buffer=temp > > tobit ... > > outfile end > > And simply discard the string. Admittedly not very elegant...
Or more efficiently: outfile null # do stuff silently end outfile Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list -- gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-devel-le...@gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-devel.gretlml.univpm.it/
