(subject changed from "[R] a doubt" )
The fortran source code for X-12-ARIMA seems to be available at <http://www.census.gov/srd/www/x12a/x12down_unix.html>. Incorporating this into a standard R package would be a much better approach than trying to hack an OS specific version with system calls to a .exe file. I expect there will be a fair amount of work in either case, and I don't have time to look at it now. If anyone wants to do the real work then I would be interested in using it (but using calls to a .exe would not be very useful to me). The first thing to check would be the license, as I have not looked at it. The next is probably the question of whether the fortran is nicely organized in subroutines without IO, so R can call those and avoid fortran IO problems.
(Perhaps there are R users at the U.S. Census Bureau that would be willing to help?)
Paul Gilbert
Martínez Ovando Juan Carlos wrote:
Hello again,
In a previous message I request your help, but I don't have been clear in my problem. Specifically, I'm trying to create an interface in R for the X-12-ARIMA and TRAMO SEATS, for the versions that run in MS-DOS. This problem awake in me the interest for make interfaces to comparing some Bayesian models for classification that where implemented in MS-DOS to. The question for you is if you know about the existence of an R function that allows me to run -in Windows- executable files in MS-DOS from the R command window.
The function 'dos' in Matlab that I have mention in the previous message allows to run '.exe' programs for a specific directory.
Many thanks.
Saludos,
Juan Carlos
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