[R] arima() in for loop

[John Fox]

Dear VIto,

At 12:50 PM 10/28/2002 +0100, vito muggeo wrote:
>hi all,
>In a simulation context I'm running in a for loop the arima() function
>
>for( i in 1:1000){
>         y<-arima.sim(....)
>         out<-arima(y,....)
>         ........
>          }
>Everything works, but after some cycle (10, say) I get error due to the
>particular y-values simulated. (E.g., a *frequent* error is "Error in
>svd(na.omit(xreg)) : 0 extent dimensions") As a consequence the overall loop
>does not continue!
>
>Is it possible to skip the "errors" ? i.e I'd like that, when arima() is not
>able to estimate the model, it returns 0, say (or some other object), in
>order to allow the loop to go on.
>
>I tried to look inside the code of arima(), but I'm not so expert to find
>the solution

Take a look at the try function, which is designed to trap errors.

Regards,
  John
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