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There's nothing to estimate in an identity. What's the goal?

It is probably related to Excel being open, yes. If Excel is open, we ask Excel to handle the file read. If Excel is closed, EViews does it. (Roughly).

We'll poke around, but in the meantime recommend having Excel closed.

Does all this occur with a specific file, or are you having issues reading all Excel files?

Yes, deleting the files when EViews is running could cause a crash.

EViews should delete the files itself after 30 days (Options->General Options->File Locations).

If you want to manually delete them, doing so when EViews is not open should be fine.

Could you describe what you mean by "This seems to cause an EViews crash"?

Also, what's the build date of your copy of EViews 13 (Help->About EViews).

The problem is that it is selecting the "empty model" as the best model in your case for these countries (and in the other cases it is selecting the GUM). But the empty model is non-valid.

You could get around it by using the "noempty" option to not include the empty model.

I tried running default settings, and it seemed to go through every country: %list = @wflookup("dp*") %list = @replace(%list, "DP", "") for %temp {%list} equation tmp_model{%temp}.varsel(method=auto) dp{%temp} @ c dp{%temp}(-1) dp{%temp}(-2) dp{%temp}(-3) dp{%temp}(-4) ...

Presumably %temp is changing in some sort of loop - what's it equal to when the program fails?

Any chance you could provide the workfile?

Could you provide an example?

Show off.

Not at the moment.

Create a series equal to @date on the daily page. Copy it over to the monthly page using "first" as the frequency conversion. Then copy it again using "last" as the frequency conversion. That will give you a series of the dates of the first workday and last weekday of each month.

I'd do it just by creating a temporary monthly page.