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You can't just install R by itself. You need to follow the instructions in the EViews documentation for installing and connecting R to EViews.

thanks for the reply.
I followed the instructions and installed R accordingly. i created my regression using least squares method from Estimate equation option. When i run the add in, i get the message "R(for 'date') returned an unknown error". I am using closingprices as my dependent variable against time. the data was downloaded directly from a company's website and then imported from excel to eviews. I am sorry to bother you with elementary questions since i am not used to using Eviews. i am only using it to find the break date for the 2008 financial crisis. is it possible that it is happening because i might have imported my time series data the wrong way?

Post your workfile.

ok. here it is. Thank u very much for the help:)

The immediate problem is that R doesn't like having data called "date". If you rename your date variable to something else, it alleviates that problem. However the test still doesn't run properly. I can't tell what is causing the R code to fail.

hey,
Thanks for sparing some time to help me out:) I have finally been able to run it. i renamed the "date" variable and added another variable and it worked. I have been able to get the breakdate i was searching for. Thanks again^^

Thank you very much for at very useful thread so far.

I'm about to test around 80 series for breaks using this add-in. As I understand it, I will use: ls "series" c @trend when it looks like there is a trend, and: ls "series" c when it does not look like a trend. Is that about right?

best
Carsten

hi, everyone, I am just a newcomer
i have a question:
I want to use the bai breakpoint test to test whether a time series have some breakpoint, is it right?
I just see someone above replaying the test can be used only to test the equation coefficient?

I post my data, it is the sp500 return from 1989 to 2012, daily data.
would anyone do me a favor to test for me?

Hi I'm currently using the Bai Perron to test for multiple breaks. It seems to work fine (thanks Eviews!) but unlike say the Chow and Quandt Andrews test, I can't test for a subset of parameters..as far as I know, since it's at click and run without options. Is there a way I can do the subset test? Perhaps by tweaking the code - if available in Eviews?

Many thanks.

I'm not sure if the R code supports subsets, but you could certainly take a look at the code to see.

Hello all,

I am getting "unsupported data format passed to interpreter" error, when I run bai perron structural break test...My system is Win 7, eviews 7, and R 2.15.0.
How can I deal with this problem?
Thanks for your help in advance.

Julia

Perhaps you could post your workfile?

Hi,
The file comes from the eviews 7's manual data. I am just discovering whether I could handle my work on eviews 7 platform.If it is possible, it will save me a lot of time.Eviews is very easy to use compared to other programs.

Thanks in advance.

J.

it is a problem that stems from statconn.
i will try to fix.

Now it works.

Thanks to eviews developers.

J.