Line of code won't run on Version 3.5.1 but did on 3.4.0

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Since getting the new version of R, I'm getting stuck on a line of code that used to run without error.

MAGAMM <- rwf(ky_data.MAGA[,6],h=41,drift=T,level=c(90,95),fan = FALSE,lambda = NULL)
Error in stats::arima(x = x, order = order, seasonal = seasonal, xreg = xreg, :
lengths of 'x' and 'xreg' do not match

"rwf" is from the forecast library, but I can't find any information online about other people having this issue. I have had a colleague run the exact same step on his machine which is still running 3.4.0 and it worked. Anyone have an idea of how to fix this?

Thanks!

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I've not had this exact issue, but I have had weird issues in the past caused by upgrading R and not updating all my packages. Any chance your packages are out of date?

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I'm using a new computer which is why I have the updated R Studio version, so all the packages were installed for the first time with the 3.5.1 version.

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can you run a simple example rwf script such as this:

library(forecast)
gold.fcast <- rwf(gold[1:60], h=50)
plot(gold.fcast)
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Yep that ran, leads me to believe it is a table issue, but that wouldn't corroborate the fact that the exact same code runs on another computer right?

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what does ky_data.MAGA[,6] look like? Can you create fake data of the same dimension and run rwf? For example, I don't know anything about your data so I created a 10x60 matrix full of random values then used the same logic you used, and it ran:

library(forecast)

m <- matrix(data=rnorm(60),nrow=10,ncol=6)
m[,6]
#>  [1] -0.9322692  0.3841381  0.4401088 -0.3403564 -0.6407844  0.6065468
#>  [7] -1.1301758  1.4890970 -1.0470580 -0.4042256

rwf(m[,6],h=41,drift=T,level=c(90,95),fan = FALSE,lambda = NULL)
#>    Point Forecast      Lo 90     Hi 90      Lo 95     Hi 95
#> 11   -0.345554131  -3.117825  2.426716  -3.648918  2.957810
#> 12   -0.286882624  -4.379882  3.806117  -5.163992  4.590227
#> 13   -0.228211118  -5.443715  4.987292  -6.442867  5.986445
#> 14   -0.169539612  -6.417098  6.078019  -7.613965  7.274886
#> 15   -0.110868106  -7.338881  7.117145  -8.723577  8.501841
#> 16   -0.052196600  -8.227650  8.123257  -9.793850  9.689457
#> 17    0.006474907  -9.093722  9.106672 -10.837078 10.850028
#> 18    0.065146413  -9.943390 10.073683 -11.860760 11.991053
#> 19    0.123817919 -10.780754 11.028390 -12.869781 13.117417
#> 20    0.182489425 -11.608620 11.973599 -13.867484 14.232463
#> 21    0.241160931 -12.428981 12.911303 -14.856244 15.338566
#> 22    0.299832437 -13.243299 13.842964 -15.837804 16.437469
#> 23    0.358503944 -14.052673 14.769681 -16.813472 17.530480
#> 24    0.417175450 -14.857944 15.692295 -17.784253 18.618603
#> 25    0.475846956 -15.659773 16.611467 -18.750930 19.702624
#> 26    0.534518462 -16.458682 17.527719 -19.714129 20.783166
#> 27    0.593189968 -17.255092 18.441472 -20.674349 21.860729
#> 28    0.651861475 -18.049345 19.353068 -21.632001 22.935724
#> 29    0.710532981 -18.841725 20.262791 -22.587419 24.008485
#> 30    0.769204487 -19.632465 21.170874 -23.540884 25.079293
#> 31    0.827875993 -20.421762 22.077514 -24.492630 26.148382
#> 32    0.886547499 -21.209783 22.982878 -25.442854 27.215949
#> 33    0.945219006 -21.996668 23.887106 -26.391725 28.282163
#> 34    1.003890512 -22.782538 24.790319 -27.339388 29.347169
#> 35    1.062562018 -23.567499 25.692623 -28.285966 30.411090
#> 36    1.121233524 -24.351640 26.594107 -29.231567 31.474034
#> 37    1.179905030 -25.135040 27.494850 -30.176286 32.536096
#> 38    1.238576537 -25.917769 28.394922 -31.120205 33.597358
#> 39    1.297248043 -26.699886 29.294382 -32.063394 34.657891
#> 40    1.355919549 -27.481445 30.193284 -33.005920 35.717759
#> 41    1.414591055 -28.262494 31.091676 -33.947836 36.777019
#> 42    1.473262561 -29.043074 31.989599 -34.889195 37.835720
#> 43    1.531934067 -29.823224 32.887092 -35.830041 38.893909
#> 44    1.590605574 -30.602976 33.784187 -36.770413 39.951624
#> 45    1.649277080 -31.382362 34.680916 -37.710348 41.008903
#> 46    1.707948586 -32.161408 35.577305 -38.649879 42.065776
#> 47    1.766620092 -32.940139 36.473379 -39.589034 43.122275
#> 48    1.825291598 -33.718578 37.369161 -40.527841 44.178424
#> 49    1.883963105 -34.496744 38.264670 -41.466323 45.234249
#> 50    1.942634611 -35.274655 39.159925 -42.404502 46.289771
#> 51    2.001306117 -36.052330 40.054942 -43.342398 47.345010
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This is what it looks like with dummy variable and data:

SUM_of_ASDGH_JKL

1 11760.
2 11690.
3 11782.
4 11696.
5 11677.
6 11689.
7 11044.
8 11964.
9 11849.
10 11260.

... with 28 more rows

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can you run str(ky_data.MAGA) so we can see what type of object that is?

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This is a silly question but what part of that output would indicate the object?

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well that depends on what type of object it is. Here's an example with my m matrix above and then converting that to a data.frame:


m <- matrix(data=rnorm(60),nrow=10,ncol=6)

str(m)
#>  num [1:10, 1:6] -1.564 1.939 1.966 -0.388 0.917 ...


m_df <- data.frame(m)

str(m_df)
#> 'data.frame':    10 obs. of  6 variables:
#>  $ X1: num  -1.564 1.939 1.966 -0.388 0.917 ...
#>  $ X2: num  1.131 0.174 1.032 -0.029 1.71 ...
#>  $ X3: num  -0.00509 1.01644 1.01758 -0.29525 -1.43592 ...
#>  $ X4: num  -0.6087 -0.7947 2.0995 -0.0696 -1.9768 ...
#>  $ X5: num  0.744 2.364 -1.113 -0.505 2.144 ...
#>  $ X6: num  1.058 0.714 -0.705 1.037 0.657 ...

for an unlabeled matrix like m the output is num [1:10, 1:6] which tells us it's a matrix of shape 10 x 6. The data.frame reports 'data.frame': 10 obs. of 6 variables: which is a bit more obvious.