FoReco

1.3.1

Forecast Reconciliation

2packages depend

7.3Kdownloads / year

54.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniele GirolimettoFirst published 2020-10-0114 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Classical (bottom-up and top-down), optimal combination and heuristic point (Di Fonzo and Girolimetto, 2023 doi:10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.08.004) and probabilistic (Girolimetto et al. 2024 doi:10.1016/j.ijforecast.2023.10.003) forecast reconciliation procedures for linearly constrained time series (e.g., hierarchical or grouped time series) in cross-sectional, temporal, or cross-temporal frameworks.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("FoReco", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("danigiro/FoReco")

Development version from danigiro/FoReco. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-foreco

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-FoReco

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-03-25
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-19
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
5 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 9 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ danigiro/foreco

40Stars

8Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

13Releases

156Commits

3Contributors

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156 commits · Last activity 2026-07-13 · +2.6% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/danigiro/foreco on 2026-07-19.

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.4Matrix

Imports (7)

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Suggests (1)

testthat

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Reverse dependencies

2direct

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FoCo2 FoRecoML

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Daniele Girolimetto

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Daniele Girolimetto

Author, Maintainer

Tommaso Di Fonzo

Author

Contributors (1)

Yangzhuoran Fin Yang

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-10-01
Total releases: 14 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 810 KB
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