[Gretl-users] tramo and x12 arima are not recognized by gretl 1.6.0

[Allin Cottrell]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, John Paravantis PhD wrote:

> The new version of gretl installs within Program Files and this 
> is great BUT tramo and x12 arima STILL install in the userdata 
> directory and DO NOT work with version 1.6.0.

I have now tested this on Windows.  As you say, the default 
install directory for X-12-ARIMA and TRAMO/SEATS is still 
c:\userdata, and this really ought to be updated in line with 
gretl itself.

On the other hand, I had no problem running either program with 
current gretl.  The classroom installation that I checked already 
had X-12-ARIMA installed in c:\userdata, and calling the program 
from gretl (which is in the current default location of c:\Program 
Files) worked OK.  TRAMO was not installed on the machine in 
question.  I downloaded ts_install.exe and ran it, accepting the 
default of installation in c:\userdata.  Then I restarted gretl, 
and I could access TRAMO alright.

I'm not sure, but this may be the issue: After switching the gretl 
installation to a different location, you may have to seek out the 
uninstallers for both x12a and Tramo, and uninstall then reinstall 
those programs.  I suspect that some stale Windows registry 
entries are causing the problem.

Allin Cottrell