Package: nowcast
Title: Economic Nowcasting with Bridge Equations and Real-Time
        Evaluation
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: person("Charles", "Coverdale", email = "charlesfcoverdale@gmail.com",
    role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"))
Description: Provides bridge equations with optional autoregressive terms for
    nowcasting low-frequency macroeconomic variables (e.g. quarterly GDP) from
    higher-frequency indicators (e.g. monthly retail sales). Handles the
    ragged-edge problem where different indicators have different publication
    lags via mixed-frequency alignment. Includes pseudo-real-time evaluation
    with expanding or rolling windows, and the Diebold-Mariano test for
    comparing forecast accuracy following Harvey, Leybourne, and Newbold
    (1997) <doi:10.1016/S0169-2070(96)00719-4>. No API calls; designed to
    work with data from any source.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-US
URL: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/nowcast
BugReports: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/nowcast/issues
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: cli (>= 3.6.0), grDevices, graphics, stats
Suggests: spelling, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-03-21 09:51:26 UTC; charlescoverdale
Author: Charles Coverdale [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Charles Coverdale <charlesfcoverdale@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-03-25 21:00:03 UTC
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