Re: [Gretl-users] Change in the diff command in gretl 2018d

Am 16.01.2019 um 08:46 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote: > >> That's now fixed in git. > > Thanks. While we're at it, we may want to slightly revisit the behaviour of > the TRAMO/SEATS backend for deseas(): if the automatic analysis finds no > seasonality, then the seasonally adjusted series is simply not created and > deseas() spits an error. Example: > > <hansl> > open AWM18 > catch series c = deseas(YER, T) > err = $error > printf "error %d: %s\n", err, errmsg(err) > </hansl> > > gives > > <output> > ? catch series c = deseas(YER, T) > /home/jack/.gretl/tramo/graph/series/safin.t: No such file or directory > ? err = $error > Generated scalar err = 11 > ? printf "error %d: %s\n", err, errmsg(err) > error 11: Error attempting to open file > </output> > > I guess that in this case we could just fill the seasnoally-adjusted series > with the original values and issue a warning, but I'd rather ask you guys > for your opinion. Hm, silently returning "no action" when action is wanted wouldn't seem right.