[Gretl-users] Unable to use X-12-ARIMA from Gretl

[Allin Cottrell]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Matthieu Stigler wrote:

> - Writing arma 2 3; unemp --x-12-arima leads to an error message

I should have asked: What error message, exactly?

You might get more detail by starting gretl from the command 
prompt in an xterm or similar.  For example, if I temporarily 
rename the x12a program on my system, then try to execute an arma 
command such as yours in gretl, then on stderr I see

spawn: 'Failed to execute child process "x12a" (No such file or 
directory)'
 x12a unemp -r -p -q -n 

Allin Cottrell


Allin Cottrell