[R] vars package - irf() does not work

[peter dalgaard]

You are not giving us a fully reproducible example, nor telling us the exact error messages. However, chances are that you have another irf() function that gets in the way. Does it work with vars::irf(....) ?

-pd

On 22 Feb 2017, at 10:57 , T.Riedle <tr206 at kent.ac.uk> wrote:

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> Dear all,
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> I have not received any response on this email. Is there anybody who can help me?
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> I want to run an impulse response analysis using the vars() package. The code looks as follwows.
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> # list of class varest
> varest.USA<-VAR(VAR_analsis_DataUSA, lag.max = 24, ic = "SC", type = "both")
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> varest.USA
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> summary(varest.USA)
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> #Run irf analysis
> irf.USAg<-irf(varest.USA, response = "g", n.ahead = 48, boot = TRUE, ci=0.95)
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> plot(irf.USAg)
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> The problem is that R returns an error that the arguments in irf are unused. That is, unused arguments (response="g", n.ahead = 48, boot = TRUE, ci=0.95)
> The strangeness is that it sometimes works but most of the time it does not. I installed vars() last month and irf() worked well but now it does only occasionally. I have just edited the data but kept the code unchanged.
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> In addition, I have the same problem when I am trying to replicate the example on irf() in the vars vignette althoug it also worked well when I installed vars and run the example.
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> Does anybody have an idea what is wrong?
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