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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304300815320.26176-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2003-04-30T07:16:58Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Holt Winters Error
In-Reply-To: <20030429181504.6641.qmail@web12507.mail.yahoo.com>

That's not an error, but a line of R code.

If you could post an example which generates the error and the actual 
error message, we could try to investigate it.

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Kel wrote:

> I have come across with the following error while
> running HoltWinters().
> 
> optim(c(0.3, 0.1, 0.1), error, method = "L-BFGS-B", 
> lower = c(0, 0, 0), upper = c(1, 1, 1))
> 
> It only happens to multiplicative seasonality but not
> additive.  I read the program but still couldn't
> understand it.  

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