add dynare path to Matlab about pynare HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi, sorry that I am just seeing this now. Would you want to send a pull request with your fix? That would be great!

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Hi, sure, I would be happy to make PR. However, this fix would work for a Linux-based OS, whereas dynare would be installed in different paths on Mac and Windows. Hence a complete solution would require a more general approach.

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From my perspective this should be fine. I would assume that this is primarily interesting for linux users after all. In any case, you could wrap your fix in a

if platform == "linux" or platform == "linux2":
    # your fix

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But wouldn't the better solution be to permanently add dynare to your matlab path? Also, the path of dynare is not the same across linux distributions (at least not for Arch vs. Ubuntu).

In that case I would just suggest to document this need to set the path beforehand.

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You're right, the installation path may be different even across different linux distributions, so probably adding something about it in the documentation is a good idea. But I think instead of asking users to add dynare path to Matlab permanently (which may not be straightforward for them to do), we may ask users to provide the dynare path when they import the library. It can look something like this:

from pynare import pynare, set_dynare_path
set_dynare_path('/usr/lib/dynare/matlab/')
mod = pynare('modfile.mod')

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Sure, I will take care of it!

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