Starting Dyn4cast

An overview of installation procedures.

Author

Affiliation

Job Nmadu

Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria

Installation

Dyn4cast is on CRAN and the development version is available. The package is very functional and stable and is actively being watched for any issue. Presently, it has passed all the tests it was subjected to.

The released version of Dyn4cast can be installed from CRAN. The canonical form for CRAN is:

install.packages("Dyn4cast")

To install the development version of Dyn4cast from GitHub, use the following canonical form:

# install.packages("devtools")
pak::pak("JobNmadu/Dyn4cast")

The development version can also be installed through r-universe. Use the form:

install.packages("Dyn4cast", repos = c("https://jobnmadu.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))

Suggested packages

A number of other packages are required for the smooth running of the package and may need to be installed if not already installed on your machine. Some of the packages are listed below:

install.packages(c(
  "lubridate", "tidyverse", "xlsx", "readxl", "rmarkdown",
  "covr", "caret", "kableExtra", "knitr", "spelling",
  "psych", "lifecycle", "MetBrewer", "data.table", "ggtext",
  "lubridate", "forecast", "MASS", "mlogit", "nnet", "betareg",
  "mvProbit", "miscTools"
))

Citation

The citation information for this package can be obtained easily when you run citation("Dyn4cast") in your R console.

## To cite package 'Dyn4cast' in publications use:
## 
##   Nmadu J (2026). _Dyn4cast: Dynamic Modeling and Machine Learning
##   Environment_. doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.Dyn4cast
##   <https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Dyn4cast>. R package version
##   11.11.26, <https://jobnmadu.github.io/Dyn4cast/>.
## 
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
## 
##   @Manual{,
##     title = {Dyn4cast: Dynamic Modeling and Machine Learning Environment},
##     note = {R package version 11.11.26},
##     author = {Job Nmadu},
##     year = {2026},
##     doi = {10.32614/CRAN.package.Dyn4cast},
##     url = {https://jobnmadu.github.io/Dyn4cast/},
##   }