[R] Forecasting - Croston Method Error

[Rob Hyndman]

Pedro Souto <pmmsouto <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> I tried to use the Croston function from the forecasting package
> 1.24<http://robjhyndman.com/software/forecasting> with
> the code below, but I get in return this message "*Error in
> decompose(ts(x[1L:wind], start = start(x), frequency = f), seasonal) :  time
> series has no or less than 2 periods*".
> 
> histValues <-ts(c(5,5,0,0,3,0,1,3,0,3,0,2,7,3,2,2,3,2,3,2,2,3,1,1,3,
>        0,1,0,2,1,0,4,1,1,3,0,1),f=12,s=c(1998,1))
> forecastValues <- croston(histValues, h=4, alpha=0.1)
> 
> Does anyone know the causes and how to fix this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Pedro Souto

This bug was in a beta version of forecast v1.24 on my website. 
The bug was corrected in v1.24 of the package uploaded to CRAN last April.

Rob Hyndman