Reputation: 571
When you study time series forecast you most often have to deal with two times: the time you issue your forecast and the time you make your forecast for. These two times are not regularly sampled in general.
What R object do you suggest to deal with these two times ? please indicate advantages and drawback. If no object exist, how should I use existing S4 object to create what I need?
Thanks in advance for sharing your experience in R with this type of data
Upvotes: 3
Views: 375
Reputation: 121057
The zoo package is useful for dealing with irregularly sampled time series.
Whether you use the issue time or the forecast time seems to be a meterological problem depend on what you're asking rather than an R
problem; if you want a better answer, you'll have to provide more detail.
See the Rosetta code page on classes for a brief intro to S4. Again, better answers require more detail.
(edited to remove assumption about what you were forecasting)
Upvotes: 1