It appeared on the mailing list 
(https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2013-July/357190.html ... you have to 
click on the attachment URL). As did this one. (You are not addressing the 
moderators... you are addressing the whole list.)

Your question is not well-formed. Please read the Posting Guide. You might 
benefit from reading 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
 as well. (We should be able to run your example and see a sample output that 
illustrates your problem. You should also post in text format so the HTML does 
not mangle your code.)

One thing to keep in mind is that this is a list for questions about R, and 
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investigate and offer some ideas or corroboration.

On the topic of R, I doubt that the package author intended that you supply 
vectors of all of the possible options for the type and ic parameters. Most 
likely, supplying just one of the options for each parameter will obtain best 
results.
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"José Verhoeven" <j...@memo2.nl> wrote:
>Hi there,
>I sent this e-mail two days ago, but I did not see it pass by the
>R-help
>mailinglist and I was wondering if you could post it or is there a que?
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Kind regards,
>Jose
>
>
>
>
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>From: Jos� Verhoeven <j...@memo2.nl>
>Date: 2013/7/22
>Subject: Why does impulse response function of VAR starts at zero and
>not
>at one?
>To: r-help@r-project.org
>
>
>Hi there,
>I have estimated a bivariate VAR model (with series x1 and x2 as
>endogenous
>variables):
>
>y=cbind(x1,x2)
>z=cbind(d1,d2,d3,d4,d5,d6,d7,d8,d9)       # some dummy variables
>
>model<-VAR(y, p = 3, type = c("const", "trend", "both", "none"),
>season = NULL, exogen = z, lag.max = NULL,
>ic = c("AIC", "HQ", "SC", "FPE"))
>
>and I have plotted the cumulative impulse response function with:
>
>impulseresponse<-irf(lagmodel, impulse = "x2", response = "x1", n.ahead
>=
>400,
>ortho = TRUE, cumulative = TRUE, boot = FALSE)
>plot(impulseresponse)
>
>Now as the impulse response function shows the effect on e.g. x1 of a
>unit
>shock in x2 I expect the value at t=0 to be at or around one (depending
>on
>whether there is an interscept in the model). Why then, does all
>impulse
>response plots I get start at zero?
>
>I really hope someone can help me out! Thanks in advance.
>
>Jose
>
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