Using Eviews from Ricardo

  1. Open up Network Neighborhood. If you're not looking at the Carswell workgroup when it opens, go to the "Entire network" and double-click on the Carswell icon. Then double-click on Ricardo. One of the shares available there is eviews4. Open this up, and you can run the program, eviews4.exe.

  2. There is documentation, in PDF format, in the docs sub-folder of eviews4.

  3. If you like, when you have the listing of shares on Ricardo open, you can right-click on the eviews4 folder, choose "Map network drive", and map this as "drive E:" (or whatever). You can also choose to have it re-mapped automatically on startup. That way you can create a desktop shortcut to e:\eviews4.exe, and have the program accessible in future without having to navigate network neighborhood.

If you want to access data series from the DRI database you will probably find this listing useful: it gives you the series names to supply in the relevant Eviews dialog box.