See ?ets in the forecast package.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Facetious Nickname <facetious_nickn...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Begging the list's indulgence, an extremely dumb beginner's question. I've > got 24 months' worth of numbers - ranging from 2 events per month, to 66 > events per month. I want to take a stab at making a reasonable guess as to > what the next year's data would be, approximately, i.e., based on the 24 > months I've got, I want to be able to tell someone: "the 12 months after this > will probably average about $number of events per month." Assuming I'm able > to navigate R with a minimum degree of proficiency, where would I start with > this? As you can doubtless tell, I'm not looking for anything sophisticated > - just a reasonable estimate. Am I going to be able to do better than a > projected per-month guess based on $total/$number_of_months? > > Thanks very much - > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
