Welcome to OTexts discussions

[robjhyndman]

This is where you can ask questions about forecasting, our books and the software we use. If it is a coding question, please provide a minimal reproducible example -- for R questions, use a reprex. If it is a question about a section of the book, please provide a link to the relevant section, so others can easily look it up.

This is not the only place where such questions can be handled. General R questions are probably better at Posit community, statistical theory and methods questions may get better answers at Crossvalidated, while general coding questions can be asked at Stackoverflow. Please don't post to all of them! Choose where your question fits best, and post it there.

We want this to be a friendly, respectful, inclusive community. Bad behaviour will not be tolerated.

Remember that all the output (graphs and tables) in our books is generated from the code shown. These are reproducible documents with embedded code. So if you don't get the same results as us, it is not because we have made an error. The code shown produced the output shown. Perhaps you are using a different version of a package, or maybe you have a different object with the same name.

When providing help, please put yourself in the position of the person having the problem. It’s really frustrating when something goes wrong, and it can be hard to ask for help. A little empathy goes a long way!

Our book authors are moderating this forum, and they will try to answer questions as time permits. But they also have jobs, so please be patient.

Don’t think that because you’re new to forecasting, R or Python, that you can’t help answering questions. You might feel like you don’t know much in general, but you may know enough to answer one question.