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No, just install the latest patch.

I can't really see how that worked in EViews 12 (and I ran it in 12, and the same behaviour as 13 occurred).

But, you probably want to use the colheadnames=( ) argument of the important statement to say which rows contain name information.

Could you provide the csv?

It looks like you're running the patch installer, rather than the full application installer.

Appears to work ok for me. Is there something else you're doing?

More specifically, when issuing a command, EViews presumes you're sat there willing to input something, so if there is a doubt about what's going on, EViews is more willing to prompt you with some options. If you're running a program, EViews assumes you don't want to be prompted, so goes with a defa...

Try running it in an program, not as a command.

Seems to work fine for me. Is your copy of EViews up to date?

Can you upload the file?

No, but the random number generator isn't guaranteed to produce the same numbers between versions (even with the same seed)

Could you provide the file?

Btvcvars are only available in EViews 13

should be

Could you provide a program that just does the bit you're having trouble with?