NEWS

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forecastHybrid 5.1.20

• Add the arfima model as a possibility to the ensemble by using the model code x.
• Require forecast 8.13.

forecastHybrid 5.0.19 (2020-08-28)

• Fix residuals.hybridModel() and added tests.
• Linting of package with the "lintr" package
• Makefile targets for building and package development.

forecastHybrid 5.0.18 (2020-04-02)

• Add the rolling argument to hybridModel() that can be used when weights = "cv.errors" to control the rolling argument in cvts().
• Add comb as an argument to thiefModel().
• Update accuracy() formals to support changes in the "forecast" package version 8.12.
• Disable longer-running tests on CRAN.
• Faster examples and vignette

forecastHybrid 4.2.17 (2019-02-11)

• Experimental ensembles with the thief() function can now be created with the new thiefModel() function. The API is similar to that of hybridModel().
• Import "thief" package.

forecastHybrid 4.1.16 (2018-12-19)

• Use forking instead of a socket cluster for parallel execution on UNIX-like systems for cvts(). This results in significantly faster execution and less memory usage, particularly when the FUN and FCFUN functions are very quick (e.g. snaive(), rwf(), stlm()), the time series is short, few cores are used, or few CV folds run.
• Faster cvts() examples.
• More tests for cvts().
• Fix spelling errors.

forecastHybrid 4.0.15

• The xreg argument passed in should now be a matrix instead of a dataframe for consistency with "forecast" v8.5.
• Fix messy function call in #27. This results in hybridModel objects that use far less memory and that print more cleanly to the console. For example, previously hm <- hybridModel(wineind); format(object.size(hm), units = "auto") produced a 5.8 Mb object but now it is only 314.8 Kb.
• Adds "purrr" to imports.

forecastHybrid 3.0.14 (2018-07-22)

• Parallel support added to hybridModel(). This can be controlled by setting parallel = TRUE and setting num.cores. By default this is not enabled since the performance improvement typically only occurs when fitting auto.arima and tbats models on long series with large frequency (e.g. taylor).
• Added z.args for the snaive() model.
• The tbats() and snaive() models now respect and use lambda when passed in t.args and z.args.
• Refactored code to remove code duplication and cleaned up the hybridModel file by moving code into helper and generic files.
• Weights and cross validation for the snaive model are now handled correctly.
• Project is now hosted on GitLab as well as GitHub. Pull requests can be submitted to either platform, and branches should sync to Gitlab automatically every hour.
• Commits and tags are now signed with RSA key 09183768E3BC25497F9060C701B81BAF17A89621. The public key is located in the package archive root directory in inst/[email protected] and hosted on both GitHub and GitLab in pkg/inst/[email protected].

forecastHybrid 2.2.12 (2018-05-04)

• Added PI.combination argument to forecast.hybridModel(). The default behavior is to follow the existing methodology of using the most extreme prediction intervals from the component models. When "mean" is passed instead, a simple (unweighted) average of the component prediction intervals is used instead.
• The theta model included in an ensemble can now handle seasonality with frequency >= 24.
• The ets model can now be included for hourly data.
• The "reshape2" package is no longer imported.

forecastHybrid 2.1.11 (2018-03-27)

• Added snaive() model to the ensemble. It is disabled by default, but can be added with "z".

forecastHybrid 2.0.10 (2018-01-03)

• API change in cvts() for the FCFUN argument: custom forecasting functions should now return a S3 "forecast" object with the point forecast in $mean, and the ts properties should be properly set.
• cvts() now defaults to 2 cores
• Moved usage examples for cvts() to the vignette.
• Add "GMDH" to suggested packages.
• Fixed a bug in cvts() introduced in version 1.0.8 when a custom FUN or FCFUN is used that requires packages other than "forecast" or "forecastHybrid".
• The thetam() function now checks for an input time series with less length than the seasonality. Similarly, hybridModel() detects this behavior. Thanks to Nicholas Fong for the bugfix.
• Updated cvts() usage example in documentation for "GMDH".
• Refactored many unit tests and the vignette for quicker examples.

forecastHybrid 1.1.9 (2017-08-23)

• Fixed a bug in forecast.hybridModel() when for models where xreg was not supplied to all of arima/nnetar models.
• Fixes in unit tests and better documentation of unit tests.
• ts objects created with the "timekt" package can now be used in hybridModel().
• The doParallel and forecast packages are now imported instead of loading their entire namespaces.

forecastHybrid 1.0.8 (2017-07-12)

• cvts() now supports parallel fitting through the num.cores argument. Note that if the model that you are fitting also utilizes parallelization, the number of cores used by each model multiplied by num.cores passed to cvts() should not exceed the number of cores on your machine.
• The package versioning now follows semantic versioning more closely; however, the convention used will be MAJOR.MINOR.RELEASE_NUM.
• Instead of loading the entire ggplot2 namespace, only specific functions are now imported.

forecastHybrid 0.4.1 (2017-06-18)

• The "forecast" package v8.1 now declares the S3 method accuracy(), so this is imported and no longer declared in "forecastHybrid".

forecastHybrid 0.4.0 (2017-03-31)

• Import the "zoo" package
• Fixed a bug in cvts() when using rolling = TRUE whereby the incorrect number of periods were calulated. Thanks to Ganesh Krishnan for the bugfix.
  • The cvts() function now allows additional arguments to be passed with .... Thanks to Ganesh Krishnan.
• Additional ... arguments can be passed to the individual component models in forecast.hybridModel().
• Documentation fixes and improvements, particularly for the cvts() function.
• Unit tests were optimized for speed, and the package tests in half the previous time.
• The behavior of the forecast() function from the "forecast" package when multiple or single prediction intervals are passed has changed. The prediction inervals are now consistently returned as matrices. This change fixes a bug in forecast.hybridModel() when multiple prediction intervals are used.
• Fixed a bug with forecast.hybridModel() for ets, nnetar, and stlm component models when the level argument was set to a single value instead of a vector of values.
• Fixed warning message for superfluous lists passed to base models in hybridModel()

forecastHybrid 0.3.0 (2016-12-19)

• Prediction intervals are now created for nnetar objects in the ensemble. This should address one aspect of incorrect prediction intervals (e.g. issue #37).
• theta models can be added (by including "f" in the models = argument for hybridModel()) and are indeed part of the default - so by default, hybridModel() will now fit six models
• accuracy.cvts() is now exported
• plot.hybridModel() now supports ggplot2 graphics when the argument ggplot = TRUE is passed.
• Time series must be at least four observations long
• Fixed an error where e.args was passed to tbats instead of t.args

forecastHybrid 0.2.0 (2016-09-23)

• Add time series cross validation with cvts()
• Add support for weights = "cv.errors" in hybridModel()
• Fix model weights when weights = "insample.errors" and one or more component models perfectly fit the time series
• Fixed erroneous warning message when xreg is included in n.args but a nnetar model is not included in the model list
• Clean up titles in plot.hybridModel()
• Enable passing ... arguments to plot() from plot.hybridModel()
• Round weights in print.hybridModel() to three digits for cleaner display
• Add verbose argument and enable by default in hybridModel() to display fitting/cross validation progress

forecastHybrid 0.1.7 (2016-06-06)

• Build vignette with knitr rmarkdown engine
• Build vignette with travis

forecastHybrid 0.1.6 (2016-06-01)

• Fix broken S3 generic accuracy() and hybridModel.accuracy()
• Add vignette
• Add NEWS
• Remove "fpp" from dependencies
• Fix warning for unimplemented parameter weights = "cv.errors"
• Fix error with nnetar and stlm models when 2 * frequency(y) >= length(y)
• Documentation improvements MORE TODO
• Migrate unit tests away from deprecated not() function from "testthat" package
• Add additional unit tests for bugfixes (accuracy fix, nnetar/stlm 2 * frequency(y) >= length(y), weights = "cv.errors")

forecastHybrid 0.1.5 (2016-04-16)

• First CRAN release