[R] An opinion question, please

[Eric Berger]

As Bert indicated, the more information you can provide about the
package goals and intended users, the more appropriate the answers
will be.

Rob Hyndman and his group have made many contributions to the field of
time series and the sub-field of forecasting, both on the theoretical
and practical sides.
Hyndman et al have created many R packages devoted to time series.
Their basic "object" is a tsibble, which is a subclass of a tibble,
which itself is a subclass of an R DataFrame.
More generally, they have adopted to extend Posit's "tidyverse" to a
"tidyverts" (where 'ts' stands for time series), so that many commonly
used packages/functions in the tidyverse can do the appropriate thing
when handed a 'tsibble' as an input, rather than a tibble. e.g.
ggplot2::autoplot( some_tsibble )

Some objects in the tidyverts that seem related to your package include:
dable - a decomposition table, which is a subclass of tsibble, and
which breaks the time series into components (trend, seasonality,
residual)
mable - a model table, used when applying different models to the same
dataset, a fairly common use case

For more information on Hyndman's approach to time series forecasting
and his R tools, check out his freely available textbook
"Forecasting: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition)"
https://otexts.com/fpp3/

HTH,
Eric




On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Bert!
>
> It’s for disaggregation of time series using different underlying
> distributions.
>
>
>
> Erin Hodgess, PhD
> mailto: erinm.hodgess using gmail.com
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com> wrote:
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> > My *opinion*:
> >
> > 1. As it stands, this "opinion survey" seems pretty useless;
> > 2. It *might* be more useful if you explained what the package will do,
> > who it's intended users are, etc.
> >
> > -- Bert
> >
> > "An educated person is one who can entertain new ideas, entertain others,
> > and entertain herself."
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess using gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everyone!
> >>
> >> I have an opinion question please.  If I’m writing a new package, would
> >> you
> >> recommend using S3 or S4 structure, please?
> >>
> >> I know I will get lots of opinions, but that’s fine.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Erin
> >>
> >>
> >> Erin Hodgess, PhD
> >> mailto: erinm.hodgess using gmail.com
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