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Thanks Stephane! I installed Dynare-4.1.0. Configuration (with matlab, without octave) and make are Okay, no errors. But Matlab was crashed when I ran some of the MOD files under tests directory which include example1.mod and example2.mod. The same example1.mod ...

... code for this model. Everything appears to be fine but when I run the model in Dynare, it returns to me the next message: ...Starting MATLAB/Octave computing. SOLVE: Iteration 14 Spurious convergence. 0.5903 0 0.3977 0 37.7875 1.0000 -608.0700 0 -8.0600 1.0000 ??? Error using ==> steady_ ...

Hi, Thanks for reporting that mode_compute=6 does not work under Octave. This routine crashes because of the waitbar function which is not available under Octave. If you want to use this routine you just have to comment the lines related to the waitbar function... ...

... message "error: 'fmincom' undefined near line 379 column 17". And so on. Does anyone have experience of successful estimation under Octave for mode_compute other than the default (4)? Regards

... - order 1 Computing dynamic model derivatives: - order 1 - order 2 Processing outputs ...done Preprocessing completed. Starting MATLAB/Octave computing. ??? Error: File: Japan_ML.m Line: 221 Column: 23 Unexpected MATLAB operator. Error in ==> dynare at 132 evalin('base',fname) ; I checked ...

Further to this, I understand from the wiki that Octave may accept data files in text format but how is not defined (we are informed that "A workaround is to convert the file to a text format (more details to come shortly)"). If one of ...

Hello, I am testing under Octave 3.2.4 a DSGE-VAR model which I have successfully estimated under Matlab R2009a. Octave apparently does not accept data in "xls" files (error: 'xlsread' undefined near line 72). My query is whether ...

Hi

The quick fix is to edit "tests/Makefile.am" and to remove the MOD file which creates problem from the list at the beginning.

This will be fixed in the future releases of Dynare.

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Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to mark and skip a known failure? I have ATLAS 3.8.3 installed on this machine and the netlib LAPACK 3.1.1 due to issues with another numerical library. I guess I'd still see this failure here then with this setup?

... declared it. I don't understand why you don't get the error message. What is your platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) and which version of MATLAB or Octave are you using? Best

Hi,

This is a known problem when using Netlib BLAS instead of ATLAS. In this case there is a matrix which is nearly singular, which is considered as singular by Netlib implementation of BLAS, but not by ATLAS.

By the way, I encourage you to install ATLAS, which has better performances.

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... at line 90, column 1 error: /home/skipper/downloads/dynare-4.1.0/matlab/dynare.m at line 132, column 1 error: run_test_octave.m at line 39, column 1 make[2]: *** [check-octave] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/skipper/downloads/dynare-4.1.0/tests' make[1]: *** ...

... model derivatives: - order 1 Computing dynamic model derivatives: - order 1 Processing outputs ...done Preprocessing completed. Starting MATLAB/Octave computing. and than it goes on forever... i would be grateful for any help. thanks, chris

... M., and F. Schorfheide (2004). And the code is from Prof. Stephane. But i have the error in the process, the error is as follows Starting MATLAB/Octave computing. Loading 52 observations from zhw.xls Loading 52 observations from zhw.xls VarSampleMoments :: not enough data to initialize! Try to ...

I found the culprit: it is the compiler we used for compiling Dynare++ binary under Windows (the one shipped with Octave 3.2.3). The solution is to use a recent MinGW compiler, from http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/ , using SJLJ exceptions handling (not Dwarf-2). I'll do that when ...