bridgr

0.1.2

Bridging Data Frequencies for Timely Economic Forecasts

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2.7Kdownloads / year

83.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Marc BurriFirst published 2024-12-132 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements bridge models for nowcasting and forecasting macroeconomic variables by linking high-frequency indicator variables (e.g., monthly data) to low-frequency target variables (e.g., quarterly GDP). Simplifies forecasting and aggregating indicator variables to match the target frequency, enabling timely predictions ahead of official data releases. For more on bridge models, see Baffigi, A., Golinelli, R., & Parigi, G. (2004) doi:10.1016/S0169-2070(03)00067-0, Burri (2023) https://www5.unine.ch/RePEc/ftp/irn/pdfs/WP23-02.pdf or Schumacher (2016) doi:10.1016/j.ijforecast.2015.07.004.

Install

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

install.packages("bridgr", 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("marcburri/bridgr")

Development version from marcburri/bridgr. 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-bridgr

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-bridgr

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-bridgr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.5 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.12

83.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 131 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 67%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 17%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ marcburri/bridgr

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Dependencies

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11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.5

Imports (8)

magrittr dplyr rlang generics tsbox lubridate forecast xts

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-12-13
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 61 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.2 MB
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