CRAN
nowcasting 1.1.3
Predicting Economic Variables using Dynamic Factor Models
Released Jun 12, 2019 by Daiane Marcolino de Mattos
This package cannot yet be used with Renjin because there was a problem building the package using Renjin's toolchain. View Build Log
Dependencies
DBI 1.0.0 lubridate 1.7.4 RCurl corpcor 1.6.9 Matrix 1.2-17 magic 1.5-8 xts 0.11-2 vars 1.5-3 RMySQL matlab 1.0.2 zoo 1.8-6 httr 1.4.0
It contains the tools to implement dynamic factor models to forecast economic variables. The user will be able to construct pseudo real time vintages, use information criteria for determining the number of factors and shocks, estimate the model, and visualize results among other things.