smooth (version 1.9.0)

xregExpander: Exogenous variables expander

Description

Function expands the provided matrix or vector of variables, producing values with lags and leads specified by lags variable.

Usage

xregExpander(xreg, lags = c(-frequency(xreg):frequency(xreg)),
  silent = TRUE)

Arguments

xreg

Vector / matrix / data.frame, containing variables that need to be expanded. In case of vector / matrix it is recommended to provide ts object, so the frequency of the data is taken into account.

lags

Vector of lags / leads that we need to have. Negative values mean lags, positive ones mean leads.

silent

If silent=FALSE, then the progress is printed out. Otherwise the function won't print anything in the console.

Value

ts matrix with the expanded variables is returned.

Details

This function could be handy when you want to check if lags and leads of a variable influence the dependent variable. Can be used together with xregDo="select" in es, ces, ges and ssarima. All the missing values in the beginning and at the end of laged series are substituted by mean forecats produced using es.

See Also

es, stepwise

Examples

# Create matrix of two variables, make it ts object and expand it
x <- cbind(rnorm(100,100,1),rnorm(100,50,3))
x <- ts(x,frequency=12)
xregExpander(x)