On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:41:58AM -0400, Paul Gilbert wrote: > (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.
Couldn't agree more. GNU Gretl, a sleek intro- to intermediate econometrics program, actually has interfaces to both x12a and tramo-seats, the latter being more of a problem as it is not available in source from the Bank of Spain. Gretl works on (at least) Windows, OS X and Linux. I maintain the Debian package too. Would be nice if someone looking for a decent code project took Census' x12a sources and brought the dreadful text-file based interface forward into this century by linking it to R. Dirk > > (Perhaps there are R users at the U.S. Census Bureau that would be > willing to help?) > > Paul Gilbert > > Mart?nez 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 > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > -- FEATURE: VW Beetle license plate in California ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
