Previously, “contains('foo\', '\')” would fail with an error, due to the
antislash not being escaped when calling the “regexp” function. Same for other
special characters in regular expressions (e.g. the dollar sign).

In particular, this bug would make Dynare unusable with Octave under
Windows (since commit e9d79796), because
Windows paths typically contain antislashes.

By the way, only create the dseries output of “perfect_foresight_solver” when
requested.

Johannes Pfeifer authored 5 months ago and Sébastien Villemot committed 5 months ago

Closes #1945

It has been available in Octave for a long time.

Frédéric Karamé authored 6 months ago and Sébastien Villemot committed 5 months ago

Make compatible the outputs of the online particle filter with the Dynare routines for presenting results + migrate the Online Particle Filter from nonlinear filters to posterior samplers + make it compatible with commit e4953523 (Efficient_drawing). Now require to create an online option for posterior_sampling_method.

This will facilitate the introduction of dates in shock sequences.

Field names used in the option structure were slightly different depending on
whether the option value was an integer or a date. This is confusing.

This commit aligns the structure field names with the option names. It also
simplifies the logic for histval_file/initval_file option handling.

[skip ci]

Ref. #1859

Ref. #1859

The legacy representation is no longer used for the estimation chain.

Note that this mechanism is not robust (in particular it does not work with the
use_dll option), but this is not new.

Ref. #1859

Ref. #1859

Bytecode does not support conditional forecasting with block
decomposition (since the derivatives w.r.t. exogenous are no longer provided by
the preprocessor when doing block decomposition). In practice trying this would
lead to a crash.

Incidentally remove calling store_smoother_results twice