On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>>>
>>> a colleague asked me about a non-convergence problem with his
>>> application of the SVAR package. I can replicate the error, which gives:
>>> ...
>>> Das Konvergenzkriterium wurde nicht getroffen
>>> *** error in function estC
>>> > catch scalar ll = NRmax(theta, "loglik(&theta, &dat, -1)",
>>>
>>> Sorry for the German, but this actually gave me a thought here: the
>>> error message ("convergence criterion not met", in German) comes from an
>>> internal function because it is translated. I assume it's from NRmax(),
>>> but then I wonder: isn't Jack's use of 'catch' supposed to suppress this
>>> error message or at least suppress the interruption?
>>
>> In theory, yes. Could you send me the data + a script, please?
>
> I've just fixed a probably relevant bug in CVS. If "catch" is used in a loop,
> and it applies to a genr expression which gets compiled, then the
> "catchiness" was wearing off after one go: on the second or subsequent
> execution of the given compiled line the error would not be trapped.
Good catch. The script still exhibits problems, but that particular one
seems to be fixed. However, I need to experiment more thoroughly.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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