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Dear members of the list, I'm a beginner in R and I'm having some trouble with: "Error in optim(init[mask], armafn, method = "BFGS", hessian = TRUE, control = optim.control, : non-finite finite-difference value [8]" when running "arima". I've seen that some people have come accross the same problem:

Hi, I updated my R rpms for SuSE systems. They are now available both for S.u.S.E 5.3 and SuSE 6.0 under ftp://ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at/pub/R/bin/linux/suse/ Additionally I put binaries for DEC Alpha systems running Digital Unix 4.0 under ftp://ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at/pub/R/bin/osf/osf4.0/alpha/ These packages are available as rpms and as a setld kit. setld is the Digital Unix package maintanance

Hello all, I''m having fun again with the arima function. This time I read in: http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa2/R_time_series_quick_fix.htm <<It has recently been suggested (by a reliable source) that using xreg in arima() does NOT fit an ARMAX model [insert slap head icon here]. This will be investigated as soon as time permits.>> (by R.H. Shumway & D.S. Stoffer)

>If you ***look at the code*** for arima you will see that ``%+%'' is >defined >in terms of a call to ``.Call()'' which calls ``R_TSconv''. So >apparently >R_TSconv is a C or Fortran function or subroutine in a ``shared >object library'' >or dll upon which arima depends. Hence to do anything with it you'll >need to get >that shared

Dear Carlos and Kjetil, Thanks for your answer. >I do not think that is the way to go. If you believe that your algorithm >is better than the existing one, talk to the author of the package and >discuss the improvement. The whole community will benefit. I should be able to *easily* modify it and test it first! >Copy the existing function into a new file, edit it and load it via

Thanks a lot to everybody that helped me out with this. Conclusions: (1) In order to edit arima in R: >fix(arima) or alternatively: >arima<-edit(arima) (2) This is not contained in the "Introduction to R" manual. (3) A "productive" fix of arima is attached (arma coefficients printed out and error catched so that it doesn't halt parent loops to search for