Dear useR! an updated version of package 'vars' has been shipped to CRAN lately. Information on package 'vars': ============================= Title: VAR Modelling Version: 0.1.3 Date: 2006-07-27 Author: Bernhard Pfaff Maintainer: Bernhard Pfaff <bernhard at pfaffikus.de> Depends: R (>= 2.0.0), MASS, strucchange Saveimage: yes Description: Estimation, lag selection, diagnsotic testing, forecasting, causality analysis, forecast error variance decomposition and impulse response functions of VAR models and estimation of SVAR models (A-model, B-model, AB-model). License: GPL 2 or newer URL: http://www.pfaffikus.de The package is shipped with a NAMESPACE and S3-classes/methods have been employed. It should be noted, that this package is still in its infancy, and more features and functionalities are in the pipeline. Hence, I would appreciate your feedback -- off list, adressed to the email adress in the DESCRIPTION file. Best, Bernhard Dr. Bernhard Pfaff Global Structured Products Group (Europe) Invesco Asset Management Deutschland GmbH Bleichstrasse 60-62 D-60313 Frankfurt am Main Tel: +49(0)69 29807 230 Fax: +49(0)69 29807 178 Email: bernhard_pfaff at fra.invesco.com ***************************************************************** Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this mess...{{dropped}}