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

[Bert Gunter]

Consider contacting the package maintainer, found by:
maintainer("seasonal") for such a package specific question.

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Bert Gunter

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 8:46 AM 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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