X13 BUG

[CharlieEVIEWS]

Dear All,

I recently re-installed EViews 8 (MAR 17 BUILD) on a laptop and I cannot now run previous programs which contain use of the .x13 routines. They work on older work pcs at my workplace which have not been updated (indeed they are running a july 2013 build, but a home p.c. running a more recent build has the routines working fine).

Attached are a sample of the series which I have verified to be transformed on the older (work pc) that give a non-descriptive error message on my recent re-install.

Any help or advice on this situation would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes as always,

Charlie

[EViews Gareth]

What options are you using?

[CharlieEVIEWS]

In the program it was using .x13(tf=auto), but Ive also tried it with just the standard .x13 command and neither appear to work on the re-install, but do on the earlier machines.

[EViews Gareth]

Works for me on my machine (also Mar 17th). Perhaps EViews didn't install correctly.

[CharlieEVIEWS]

A fresh re-install has not rectified the problem: Do I need to re-install any of the .x13 components separately or will they get refreshed automatically through the main eviews re-install?

[EViews Gareth]

They will be installed automatically.

Try creating a new, monthly, workfile and generating a random series. Can you run X13 on that?

[CharlieEVIEWS]

Hi Gareth (and thanks for your help with this),

The below code generates the same error:

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wfcreate m 1900 2000 genr strangebug = nrnd strangebug.x13(tf=auto)

The output is:

******Input Spec File******

1. series{
2. title = "STRANGEBUG"
3. start = 1900.1
4. modelspan = (1900.01, 2000.12)
5. name = "STRANGEBUG"
6. file = "C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\ev_temp\EVX13TMP.DAT"
7. decimals = 1
8. }
9. transform{
10. function = auto
11. }
12. x11{
13. save = (d11)
14. }

[CharlieEVIEWS]

Dear all,

The problem was that the new username had a space in it which the subroutine doesnt like when calls the AppData folder

file = "C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\ev_temp\EVX13TMP.DAT"

Hope this prevents any further confusion.

Best wishes as always,

Charlie