Every now and then a commercial software vendor makes claims on social media about how their software is so much better than the forecast package for R, but no details are provided. There are lots of reasons why you might select a particular software solution, and R isn’t for everyone. But anyone claiming superiority should at least provide some evidence rather than make unsubstantiated claims.The M3 forecasting competition was organized by Spyros Makridakis and Michèle …