[R] Tramo-seats

[Vittorio]

On Monday 24 May 2004 22:07, Paul Bivand wrote:
> On Monday 24 May 2004 11:00, v.demartino2 at virgilio.it wrote:
...............
> > Now - to start with - a first problem to solve:
> >
> > we have to comply with the Tramo-seats closed-source procedure
> > (http://www.bde.es/informes/be/docs/dt0014e.pdf) to deal with seasonality
> > of electricity monthly time-series, in line with the methodology
> > officially adopted by our  National Bureau of Statistics.
> >
> > Searching in R-help mailing list I didn't find anything about a
> > tramo-seats R version.
> >
> > Does anyone know of unofficial R translation of tramo-seats?
> > OR What do you suggest?
> >
> > Vittorio

>
> Not an R response I'm afraid, but have you looked at Demetra
> http://forum.europa.eu.int/irc/dsis/eurosam/info/data/demetra.htm which
> appears to be an officially sponsored windows-only implementation of
> Tramo-seats and X-12 ARIMA.
>
> The licence is not clear from the website, but it looks free as in beer but
> probably not open source.
>
> Paul Bivand
>
Paul,
Thanks for your answer.

As a matter of fact Demetra (tramo-seats is not definetely open source!) is 
what we are currently using but, you know, this doesn't match our desire to 
move to R from many other licenced pieces of software!

Ciao
Vittorio