[R] Having trouble with tsdiag function on a time series

[Prof Brian Ripley]

tsdiag is for diagnostic plots from time-series fits, not time series.

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Rafael Algara wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm getting the following error message when I try to run 'tsdiag' on what seems to be a valid time series:
>
>> tsdiag(small)
>
> returns:
>
> [Error in tsdiag(small) : no applicable method for "tsdiag"]
>
> where small is a little test series where I have isolated this problem (the original has 30-years worth of daily data)
>
> When I print it (small), it looks like the following:
>
> Time Series:
> Start = c(1990, 1)
> End = c(1990, 31)
> Frequency = 365
> [1]  0.0 16.0 10.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  2.0  2.2  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  2.5  0.1
> [20]  2.4  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  9.6  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0 25.2  7.0
>
> I've found some postings in the r-bugs list which suggest that "no 
> applicable method" can stem from a conflict across namespaces. I've 
> tried qualifying the call:

Not relevant.  Try

> methods(tsdiag)
[1] tsdiag.Arima*    tsdiag.arima0*   tsdiag.StructTS*

    Non-visible functions are asterisked

>
>> stats::tsdiag(small)
>
> with the same result.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Rafael
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