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Data-Driven Identification of SVAR Models

v1.3.12 · Aug 24, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Implements data-driven identification methods for structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) models as described in Lange et al. (2021) <doi:10.18637/jss.v097.i05>. Based on an existing VAR model object (provided by e.g. VAR() from the 'vars' package), the structural impact matrix is obtained via data-driven identification techniques (i.e. changes in volatility (Rigobon, R. (2003) <doi:10.1162/003465303772815727>), patterns of GARCH (Normadin, M., Phaneuf, L. (2004) <doi:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2003.11.002>), independent component analysis (Matteson, D. S, Tsay, R. S., (2013) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1150851>), least dependent innovations (Herwartz, H., Ploedt, M., (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.jimonfin.2015.11.001>), smooth transition in variances (Luetkepohl, H., Netsunajev, A. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2017.09.001>) or non-Gaussian maximum likelihood (Lanne, M., Meitz, M., Saikkonen, P. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2016.06.002>)).

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File ‘svars/libs/svars.so’:
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File 'svars/libs/x64/svars.dll':
  Found non-API call to R: 'R_UnboundValue'

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See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual,
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File ‘svars/libs/svars.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

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NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is  9.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    help   1.1Mb
    libs   7.2Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  8.9Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    help   1.1Mb
    libs   7.1Mb

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies vars expm reshape2 ggplot2 copula clue pbapply steadyICA DEoptim zoo strucchange Rcpp pvars svars

Version History

new 1.3.12 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.3.12 ← 1.3.11 diff Aug 23, 2025
updated 1.3.11 ← 1.3.9 diff Feb 5, 2023
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updated 1.3.2 ← 1.3.1 diff Sep 9, 2019
updated 1.3.1 ← 1.3.0 diff Jul 25, 2019
updated 1.3.0 ← 1.2.2 diff Jun 27, 2019
updated 1.2.2 ← 1.2.1 diff Nov 16, 2018
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