CRAN Update 5 / JSS Revision 2
Major release
Thanks to users, reviewers, and colleagues for plenty of inputs! This release adds new functions, improves existing ones, significantly speeds up estimation, fixes bugs, adds documentation and unit tests. The highlights are:
- A new vignette with a lot of background, additional information, and some applied examples.
- The monthly FRED-MD dataset is now also included, thanks to the people at the Fed.
- New transformation helpers speed up data preparation (see
fred_transform()
). - Conditional forecasts are now supported by
predict()
. - Estimation should now be between twice and ten times as fast.
See NEWS.md for a full list of changes.