问题
I'm currently using the hts package to forecast (forecast.gts). I'm now interested in running it in parallel, using the num.cores argument. but when i'm adding an external regressor (using the xreg and newxreg parameters) im getting the following error: Error in checkForRemoteErrors(val)
Example with data:
library(ggplot2)
library(plyr)
library(hts)
library(ts)
library(data.table)
library(reshape2)
horizon<-30
data1<-dcast(data, Date ~ Brand+Venue, sum , value.var="Spend")
data[is.na(data)] <- 0
abcd<-ts(as.matrix(data1[,2:5]),frequency=7)
#abcd<-abcd+0.000001
Brand <- c("Brand","Brand","NonBrand","NonBrand")
Venue <- rep(c("Google","MSN"), 2)
gcd <- rbind(Brand,Venue)
rownames(gcd) <- c("Brand","Venue")
x <- gts(abcd, groups = gcd)
dates = data.frame(Date=seq.Date(min(data$Date,na.rm =T), max(data$Date,na.rm =T), by = "day"))
dates$enrollment<-ifelse(dates$Date>=as.Date("2013-10-01") & dates$Date<=as.Date("2014-03-31"),1,
ifelse(dates$Date>=as.Date("2014-11-15") & dates$Date<=as.Date("2015-02-15"),1,0))
enrollment_prediction<-seq.Date(max(dates$Date)+1, max(dates$Date)+horizon, by = "day")
enrollment_prediction<-ifelse(enrollment_prediction>=as.Date("2013-10-01") & enrollment_prediction<=as.Date("2014-03-31"),1,
ifelse(enrollment_prediction>=as.Date("2014-11-15") & enrollment_prediction<=as.Date("2015-02-15"),1,0))
train<-cbind(dates[,2])
predict<-cbind(enrollment_prediction)
cost_fcasts <- forecast(x, h = horizon, method = "comb",fmethod = "arima",xreg=train,newxreg=predict)
Now i want to run again the forecast, with the parallel option:
cost_fcasts <- forecast(x, h = horizon, method = "comb",fmethod = "arima",xreg=train,newxreg=predict,parallel=T,num.cores=4)
Error in checkForRemoteErrors(val) :
which throws the following error:
4 nodes produced errors; first error: object 'train' not found
Tried to look this error up, but that wasn't a big help
It seems to work when im dropping the xreg and newxreg arguments
Thanks in advance for any help on that
the data:
dput(data)
structure(list(Date = structure(c(16104, 16182, 16149, 16190,
16156, 16146, 16108, 16154, 16132, 16149, 16110, 16105, 16120,
16135, 16155, 16126, 16130, 16140, 16136, 16128, 16127, 16129,
16113, 16137, 16178, 16118, 16142, 16107, 16106, 16131, 16126,
16139, 16138, 16157, 16135, 16152, 16148, 16123, 16140, 16120,
16144, 16161, 16155, 16122, 16139, 16129, 16106, 16130, 16106,
16154, 16103, 16125, 16186, 16114, 16142, 16133, 16154, 16109,
16111, 16183, 16180, 16146, 16141, 16151, 16121, 16167, 16116,
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16161, 16162, 16182, 16163, 16189, 16184), class = "Date"), Spend = c(15842.58,
4053.33, 12276.37, 3255.13, 34147.63, 10280.15, 1359.05, 10630.05,
19970.06, 8264.08, 633.13, 2018.73, 4336.53, 27650.11, 26951.01,
28489.2, 668.22, 33879.52, 21996.9, 19303.88, 23985.98, 1517.48,
1766.36, 14539.82, 2356.67, 13442.66, 9853.06, 1460.34, 1885.7,
9548.48, 6922.77, 29439.75, 14516.58, 15262.33, 3533.56, 1626.65,
11114.59, 585.64, 9125.84, 17940.8, 3477.37, 342.48, 9852.61,
2936.53, 8459.63, 15603.87, 1745.46, 3913.92, 14721.02, 4547.05,
757.44, 5125.04, 1523.12, 15526.4, 45516.4, 24888.82, 3190.53,
1065.25, 4356.01, 1142.47, 269.77, 38923.51, 39508.12, 690.53,
17041.63, 1513.47, 604.92, 3320.61, 1821.44, 14143.89, 8629.41,
8033.21, 1292.16, 2460.76, 706.36, 2804.23, 11942.11, 3084.68,
65.93, 9886.54, 3934.09, 26347.99, 903.66, 7629.38, 2468.47,
18017.85, 3720.39, 3023.53, 4375.57, 2851.58, 8886.96, 642.01,
6702.67, 4350.53, 1262.83, 496.95, 13424.99, 802.84, 858.65,
22996.32, 2929.39, 11457.34, 213.06, 1136.51, 9664.37, 1168.22,
2212.77, 1170.14, 356.39, 848.81, 3164.11, 3458.27, 3612.13,
2919.57, 7448.95, 1572.38, 8165.08, 1923.62, 15476.18, 27578.67,
3455.62, 279.58, 0, 30040.45, 1530.41, 6577.7, 1725.36, 1396.46,
1321.49, 3878.4, 7021.28, 8853.14, 1283.59, 1682.93, 5563.42,
1697.88, 3841.95, 3508.54, 9989.89, 1374.71, 2466.79, 1450.81,
1246.87, 17256.75, 1184.34, 4911.98, 4279.49, 842.95, 1509.02,
1978.1, 4056.48, 2312.5, 2674.83, 2795.75, 1047.46, 1365.23,
3367.7, 28421.9, 1208.81, 2975.87, 4314.07, 9691.88, 16614.88,
1710.66, 2870, 2287.66, 3298, 3248.6, 443.4, 1647.22, 2901.93,
3610.21, 1956.94, 2885.58, 3195.33, 2173.07, 3748.72, 2734.09,
9179.23, 571.99, 3893.73, 3600.8, 2361.42, 4801.02, 2242.37,
1249.61, 2885.95, 1097.31, 293.9, 2044.25, 1075.1, 1888.26, 413.3,
2594.21, 3729.84, 881.72, 2179.57, 31.98, 637.2, 1133.57, 520.98,
2940.35, 1942.11, 43361.33, 1837.33, 7429.81, 20603.36, 9059.43,
2776.64, 3027.94, 1803.23, 4175.03, 4361.84, 4780.86, 5334.76,
1266.33, 10430.92, 3988.57, 366.93, 3517.32, 294.78, 826.85,
1920, 3048.21, 1966.12, 2332.73, 5522.68, 1855.98, 3034.97, 4473.6,
9379.69, 2278.22, 2403.14, 1256.74, 1367.85, 1887.51, 1914.65,
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1836.96, 7785.42, 3784.51, 1379.38, 1542.7, 2937.07, 1620.28,
1658.6, 2033.13, 3081.68, 1435.15, 2945.92, 1802.12, 2084.01,
3324.74, 4623.88, 661.2, 4835.06, 342.56, 1398.99, 1131.91, 328.3,
4903.98, 4993.82, 0, 6923.42, 1591.52, 1692.26, 1607.41, 1898.13,
611.49, 1344.86, 1023.46, 1168.65, 532.7, 17004.37, 655.28, 5582.81,
1116.49, 1811.79, 4365.59, 657.33, 1225.97, 1150.57, 40.46, 1543.24,
1487.07, 7264.13, 528.31, 621, 333.81, 372.11, 446.69, 334.46,
528.69, 1353.67, 1881.9, 1040.74, 969.57, 92.97, 57.16, 611.54,
1104.2, 1478.91, 931.5, 582.02, 973.26, 753.14, 1365.5, 0, 1.61,
318.24, 1116.22, 124.04, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3.75, 26.52,
0, 0, 1.41, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 18.57, 0, 2.7, 0, 24.74,
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回答1:
Actually, it's a bug in the package. I'll try to fix it. Thanks for letting me know. Given there are 9 time series in total, parallel computation will not help to speed up the forecasting process much.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27730768/using-forecast-gts-package-hts-with-external-regressor-and-parallel-processing