identification does not work in 4.2.1

[reluginbuhl]

Attempts to call the indentification routine in Dynare produce the following error message:

??? Error: File: dynare_identification.m Line: 759 Column: 11
Expression or statement is incorrect--possibly unbalanced (, {, or [.

When I look at the code listed in the error I see the following,

[~,is]=sort(idelre.cond);

This does not look like correct Malab code. Is this supposed to be

[ss,is]=sort(idelre.cond);

(just taking a wild guess based on a very quick look at earlier versions of the code, but without understanding the routine at all)?

[jpfeifer]

The tilde operator has been introduced in Matlab 2009b, i.e. version 7.9. It is used to suppress unused function output. I will not run on earlier versions. Apparently, there is a check for the Matlab version missing.
A way to work around this problem is to do as you suggested and replace it with any new variable name that is not subsequently used.

[reluginbuhl]

Thank you very much for the reply. I will try your suggestion.

[reluginbuhl]

Now I have found a new problem (following my repair as suggested above to fix the lack of support in R2008b for [~,is] = etc.)
Here is the error message:

==== Identification analysis ====

Testing prior mean
??? Error using ==> feval
Error: File: Model_14F_cal_S_stationary_NUR_withL_id_params_derivs.m Line:
1950 Column: 221011
Nesting of {, [, and ( cannot exceed a depth of 32.

Error in ==> getH at 34
df = feval([M_.fname,'_params_derivs'],yy0, oo_.exo_steady_state', ...

Error in ==> getJJ at 39
[H, dA, dOm, dYss, gp] = getH(A, B, M_,oo_,kronflag,indx,indexo);

Error in ==> dynare_identification at 260
[JJ, H, gam, gp] = getJJ(A, B,
M_,oo0,options_,0,indx,indexo,bayestopt_.mf2,nlags,useautocorr);

Error in ==> Model_14F_cal_S_stationary_NUR_withL_id at 397
dynare_identification(options_ident);

Error in ==> dynare at 132
evalin('base',fname) ;


Any ideas?
Thank you.

[SébastienVillemot]

Hi,

Can you post the MOD file which triggers this error, so that we can reproduce the problem and, hopefully, fix it?

Thanks