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

[Matthieu Stigler]

Hello

I think I understood part of the problem. As Allin said right, it was:

the menu item "/Variable/X-12-ARIMA analysis" is present but greyed out? 

I wrote the full path in the /Tools/Preferences/General/Programm but 
this didn't help.

So I launched gretl from the command prompt: ~$gretl and had the 
following error message

/home/mat/gretl/x12arima: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type (No such file or directory)


But the problem is, that I had specified an other directory for gretl, 
which is /home/mat/Repertoires/gretl and this is well specified in the 
/Tools/Preferences/General/General
So maybe the programm should be corrected to search for the arima file 
in the user specified file?

So I moved my gretl file in the /home/mat/gretl and so launching ~$gretl 
was now partially good:
-It created a X12Arima file in the /home/mat/gretl
-I could use X 12 arima from the Gretl command line
-But it still stayed grey in the menu!
-And (but I think the problem is coming from me) I was not able to see 
the seasonally adjusted series. Should they appear with the others 
variables? Should I be able to open them from the 
/home/mat/gretl/X12arima or should I import them?

Thanks a lot!!!

Matthieu


Allin Cottrell a écrit :


On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Matthieu Stigler wrote:


> > I installed X-12-ARIMA with the debian package. The installation 
> > was succesfulll and I can run it from the terminal with ~$ x12a 
> > but I don't succed to use it from Gretl.
>   

Is the menu item "/Variable/X-12-ARIMA analysis" present but 
greyed out?  

If so, this is puzzling.  The check for enabling that item is that 
the specified x12a program exists and is executable.  You might 
try giving the full path to the executable under 
/Tools/Preferences/General/Programs.


> 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
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