Re: [R] forecasting a time series

2012-01-20 Thread nhomeier
Hi Michael, I think you're right, I should be looking for "predict" instead of "forecast". I'm still fairly new to R so often don't know what to look for. As a simplified example (let's neglect the fourier terms): fit = auto.arima(data) but now I have data.latest, so I want to use the ARIMA te

Re: [R] forecasting a time series

2012-01-19 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Can you clarify what exactly you mean by this? "[N]ow [I] would like to use the last X values to predict tomorrow's weather. I'm at a loss. All the functions I've come across (like forecast()) use the series and then forecast from the end point." It sounds like a prediction to me. Anyways, I thi

[R] forecasting a time series

2012-01-18 Thread nhomeier
Couldn't find this in the archives. I'm fitting a series of historical weather-related data, but would like to use the latest values to forecast. So let's say that I'm using 1970-2000 to fit a model (using fourier terms and arima/auto.arima), but now would like to use the last X values to predict t