Hi Clara, Your example works fine on my Apple Mac running R 2.6.0.
You should include the output of sessionInfo() so others will know what platorm you are working on. > # time series > x<-ts(c(-0.2052083,-0.3764986,-0.3762448,0.3740089,0.2737568,2.8235722,- + 1.7783313,0.2728676,-0.3273164),start=c(1978,3),frequency=4,end=c(1980,3)) > > # ar function > res.ar<-ar(x,aic=TRUE,demean=F) > > # call "ar" again and ............ > res.ar<-ar(x,aic=TRUE,demean=F) > > res.ar<-ar(x,aic=TRUE,demean=F) > res.ar Call: ar(x = x, aic = TRUE, demean = F) Order selected 0 sigma^2 estimated as 1.482 > res.ar<-ar(x,aic=TRUE,demean=F) > res.ar Call: ar(x = x, aic = TRUE, demean = F) Order selected 0 sigma^2 estimated as 1.482 > summary(res.ar) Length Class Mode order 1 -none- numeric ar 0 -none- numeric var.pred 1 -none- numeric x.mean 1 -none- numeric aic 10 -none- numeric n.used 1 -none- numeric order.max 1 -none- numeric partialacf 9 -none- numeric resid 9 ts numeric method 1 -none- character series 1 -none- character frequency 1 -none- numeric call 4 -none- call > sessionInfo() R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03) powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.1 locale: en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] survival_2.34 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.6.0 > Steven McKinney Statistician Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program British Columbia Cancer Research Centre email: smckinney +at+ bccrc +dot+ ca tel: 604-675-8000 x7561 BCCRC Molecular Oncology 675 West 10th Ave, Floor 4 Vancouver B.C. V5Z 1L3 Canada -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Clara Cordeiro Sent: Fri 11/23/2007 7:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] help pleaseeeeeeeee Dears Sirs During my computational work I encountered unexpected behavior when calling "ar" function, namely # time series x<-ts(c(-0.2052083,-0.3764986,-0.3762448,0.3740089,0.2737568,2.8235722,- 1.7783313,0.2728676,-0.3273164),start=c(1978,3),frequency=4,end=c(1980,3)) # ar function res.ar<-ar(x,aic=TRUE,demean=F) # call "ar" again and ............ res.ar<-ar(x,aic=TRUE,demean=F) Error in if (order > 0) coefs[order, 1:order] else numeric(0) : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed In addition: Warning messages: 1: In log(var.pred) : NaNs produced 2: In if (order > 0) coefs[order, 1:order] else numeric(0) : the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used For me it is mysterious why sometimes it works and others it does not, perhaps I am doing something wrong and stupid :-( If anyone had already had this problem could you please tell me how you have solved it? Thank you for your time. Best Regards, Clara Cordeiro [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.