forecastHybrid

5.1.21

Convenient Functions for Ensemble Time Series Forecasts

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Overview

About

Maintained by David ShaubFirst published 2016-04-1619 releasesCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗

Convenient functions for ensemble forecasts in R combining approaches from the 'forecast' package. Forecasts generated from auto.arima(), ets(), thetaf(), nnetar(), stlm(), tbats(), snaive() and arfima() can be combined with equal weights, weights based on in-sample errors (introduced by Bates & Granger (1969) doi:10.1057/jors.1969.103), or cross-validated weights. Cross validation for time series data with user-supplied models and forecasting functions is also supported to evaluate model accuracy.

Install

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

install.packages("forecastHybrid", 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("dashaub/forecastHybrid")

Development version from dashaub/forecastHybrid. 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-forecasthybrid

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-forecastHybrid

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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Tests · ratio 0.48

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100%

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 79%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 78%
References docs: 0%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ellisp/forecasthybrid

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 4.0.4forecast thief

Imports (5)

doParallel foreach ggplot2 (>= 3.3.6)purrr zoo

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David Shaub

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David Shaub

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Peter Ellis

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-16
Total releases: 19 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.4
Download size: 638 KB
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