Re: [R] VAR (pckg: vars) and memory problem

2009-08-18 Thread herrdittmann
Dear Bernard,  Please find attached the output of traceback() below for this rather large VAR. I am using vars 1.4-6 at the moment: dim(var.trial) [1] 22367 3   summary(VAR(var.trial, type=none, p=3)) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 3.7 GbIn addition: Warning messages: 1: In

[R] VAR (pckg: vars) and memory problem

2009-08-15 Thread herrdittmann
Hi all, When I tried to estimate a VAR (package vars) of a rather large dataset with 5 lags: dim(trial.var) [1] 20388 2 I ran into memory troubles: summary(VAR(trial.var, type=none, p=5)) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 3.1 Gb In addition: Warning messages: 1: In

[R] R on netbooks et al?

2009-03-05 Thread herrdittmann
Dear useRs, With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if

[R] Vars package - specification of VAR

2008-12-07 Thread herrdittmann
Hi useRs, Been estimating a VAR with two variables, using VAR() of the package vars. Perhaps I am missing something, but how can I include the present time t variables, i.e. for the set of equations to be: x(t) = a1*y(t) + a2*y(t-1) + a3*x(t-1) + ... Y(t) = a1*x(t) + a2*x(t-1) + a3*y(t-1) +