[R] Seasonal adjustment with seas - Error: X-13 has returned a non-zero exist status

[Jeff Newmiller]

I don't know definitively, but if I were in your shoes I would put my personal package library on a local drive. UNC paths are not supported by all of the Windows file-related system calls.

On September 17, 2020 6:59:33 AM PDT, "Weber Sylvain (HES)" <sylvain.weber using hesge.ch> wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I am using function "seas" from package "seasonal" for seasonal
>adjustment of time series. I am using the latest version of R (4.0.2,
>64-bit).
>The following lines provide a small working example:
>## EXAMPLE ##
>library(seasonal)
>m <- seas(AirPassengers)
>m
>
>On my private laptop, everything is going smoothly, and I obtain the
>following output:
>## OUTPUT ##
>Call:
>seas(x = AirPassengers)
>
>Coefficients:
>     Weekday          Easter[1]         AO1951.May  MA-Nonseasonal-01  
>    -0.00295            0.01777            0.10016            0.11562  
>   MA-Seasonal-12  
>          0.49736  
>
>But on my office computer, I receive the following error message after
>issuing " m <- seas(AirPassengers)":
>## ERROR ##
>Error: X-13 has returned a non-zero exist status, which means that the
>current spec file cannot be processed for an unknown reason.
>In addition: Warning message:
>In system(cmd, intern = intern, wait = wait | intern,
>show.output.on.console = wait,  :
>running command 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c
>"\\hes-nas-prairie.hes.adhes.hesge.ch/Home_S/sylvain.weber/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/x13binary/bin/x13ashtml.exe"
>C:\Users\SYLVAI~1.WEB\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpe0MDE7\x132d0cb8579b9/iofile
>-n -s' had status 1
>
>A similar issue has been already mentioned in various blogs, for
>instance:
>https://rdrr.io/github/christophsax/seasonal/src/travis/test-x13messages.R
>http://freerangestats.info/blog/2015/12/21/m3-and-x13
>https://github.com/christophsax/seasonal/issues/154
>but I couldn't find any solution yet.
>
>Does anyone have any idea why this issue is occurring?
>
>Thanks very much.
>
>Sylvain
>
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