R help - Feb 2004 - arima function

Hello,
I am a beginner user of R and I would like to estimate a model with AR
errors. I use arima function:

modele
<-arima(conso,xreg=var.exogenes,order=c(ordre,0,0),include.mean=TRUE,method
="CSS")

My inputs are dummies for each month except one, and the same thing for
each day and each hour.   I have this error message:
Warning message:
possible convergence problem: optim gave code= 1 in: arima(as.ts(conso),
xreg = table, order = c(10, 0, 0), include.mean = TRUE,

I try to estimate this model with SAS and I have a result.

Have you a solution to solve this problem?
Thank you very much,

Gaelle Barrot

You can look the message up!  ?optim gives

convergence: An integer code. '0' indicates successful convergence.
          Error codes are

          '1' indicates that the iteration limit 'maxit' had
been
               reached.

and so you should try an increased limit via the optim.control argument.

If I understand correctly, you have two possible ways to model trends, and 
it is likely that makes the optimization ill-determined.

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Gaelle BARROT wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a beginner user of R and I would like to estimate a model with AR
> errors. I use arima function:
> 
> modele
>
<-arima(conso,xreg=var.exogenes,order=c(ordre,0,0),include.mean=TRUE,method
> ="CSS")
> 
> My inputs are dummies for each month except one, and the same thing for
> each day and each hour.   I have this error message:
> Warning message:
> possible convergence problem: optim gave code= 1 in: arima(as.ts(conso),
> xreg = table, order = c(10, 0, 0), include.mean = TRUE,
> 
> I try to estimate this model with SAS and I have a result.
> Have you a solution to solve this problem?
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