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Hi,
I'm using the "coint" method for co-integration of the var object and were disappointed to see that the matrix which is supposed to store the results for further processing is very incomplete. for example, if you include a test of cointegrating restrictions (which you do by imposing constraints with the append method), i don't see how you learn about whether a restriction was rejected or not!
I suppose that the eviews team forgot to supply this important information through a matrix, but still this won't be fixed anytime soon, can you indicate me a workaround how to grab the information I need from the cells of the output view?
Thanks
Steve

Matrices can only store numbers. Thus it would be impossible to add text to them. However, you can always freeze the output into a table, which is essentially a matrix that allows text.

oh i wasn't thinking about text, i just need values not returned by the matrix, e.g. the p-value of the test for cointegrating restrictions.
the issue when using a table is that the content won't always be at the same place, i.e. the row coordinate of the cell you're looking at may vary in function of the amount of results displayed before. Do you have an idea how to deal with that?

besides, the matrix that coint returns includes the test statistics, but not the critical values or p-values in order to decide about reject of the null or not! where is one supposed to obtain the critical values (if not from the table)?

You'll just have to program through the table. You can usually work out where the position of the relevant information is.