R Observatory: Metrics for gtop version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2023-11-24. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected in time

Details below reflect version 0.2.0, its last release before removal.

gtop

0.2.0

Game-Theoretically OPtimal (GTOP) Reconciliation Method

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Overview

About

Maintained by Jairo Cugliari1 releasesCRAN page ↗

In hierarchical time series (HTS) forecasting, the hierarchical relation between multiple time series is exploited to make better forecasts. This hierarchical relation implies one or more aggregate consistency constraints that the series are known to satisfy. Many existing approaches, like for example bottom-up or top-down forecasting, therefore attempt to achieve this goal in a way that guarantees that the forecasts will also be aggregate consistent. This package provides with an implementation of the Game-Theoretically OPtimal (GTOP) reconciliation method proposed in van Erven and Cugliari (2015), which is guaranteed to only improve any given set of forecasts. This opens up new possibilities for constructing the forecasts. For example, it is not necessary to assume that bottom-level forecasts are unbiased, and aggregate forecasts may be constructed by regressing both on bottom-level forecasts and on other covariates that may only be available at the aggregate level.

Install

R (source archive)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/gtop/gtop_0.2.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "gtop_0.2.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.2.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-gtop

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-gtop

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

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Coverage

100%

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 33%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

hts quadprog lassoshooting

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Other (2)

Jairo Cugliari

Contributor

Tim van Erven

Contributor

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-11-24
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.2.0
2015-01-23
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

Total releases: 1
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gtop")

Format

Cugliari, J., & Erven, T. v. (n.d.). gtop: Game-Theoretically OPtimal (GTOP) Reconciliation Method (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gtop

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gtop version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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