It’s been nearly nine years since the last major release of the forecast package, as we have been focusing on developing fable and related packages as a tidyverse-based alternative for time series forecasting in R.

However, version 9.0 of the forecast package has now been released on CRAN. Thanks to Maximilian Muecke for helping with this release, and for modernising some of the old code.

Here are the main new features and changes.

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