R Observatory: Metrics for seer version 1.1.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

seer

1.1.8Package record

Feature-Based Forecast Model Selection

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

38.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thiyanga TalagalaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A novel meta-learning framework for forecast model selection using time series features. Many applications require a large number of time series to be forecast. Providing better forecasts for these time series is important in decision and policy making. We propose a classification framework which selects forecast models based on features calculated from the time series. We call this framework FFORMS (Feature-based FORecast Model Selection). FFORMS builds a mapping that relates the features of time series to the best forecast model using a random forest. 'seer' package is the implementation of the FFORMS algorithm. For more details see our paper at https://www.monash.edu/business/econometrics-and-business-statistics/research/publications/ebs/wp06-2018.pdf.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("seer", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("thiyangt/seer")

Development version from thiyangt/seer. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-seer

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-seer

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-seer

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.8

READMEYes · 622 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 37
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 3%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,938 · ~10/day · ~293/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43730 days

1.1K90 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on100 r2u4 autocran87 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

thiyangt/seer ↗Account: thiyangt

77Stars

12Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

254Commits

2Commit identities

254 commits · Last activity 2022-10-01 · -1.3% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 11
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-06-13 · 782026-10-03 · 77

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thiyangt/seer on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-10-01

pkgdown site last built 2020-06-01, before release 1.1.8 (2022-10-01)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing seer adds 56 packages (32 with compiled code, 40 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.3

Imports (14)

statsurca forecast dplyr magrittr randomForest forecTheta stringr tibble purrr future furrrutilstsfeatures

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

testthat covr repmis knitr rmarkdown ggplot2 tidyr Mcomp GGally

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Thiyanga Talagala

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.4 (2020)

George Athanasopoulos

Thesis advisor, Author

Rob J Hyndman

Thesis advisor, Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-02-21
Total releases: 5 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.3
Download size: 32 KB

Appears in task views

Time Series Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("seer")

Format

Talagala, T., Athanasopoulos, G., & Hyndman, R. J. (2022). seer: Feature-Based Forecast Model Selection (Version 1.1.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.seer

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for seer version 1.1.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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