Nowcasting with the EM algorithm without imposing block restrictions on the factors.

[carloshilal]

Hello,

I want to start by infinitely thanking the contributors/builders of this package! It has greatly smoothed the process of my application. However, I stumbled across a problem and I really hope that someone can help me with it!

I want to nowcast my dataset using the EM algorithm and only 1 factor without using the block structure sub-variable restrictions.
I really hope that someone can guide me through how to tweak the nowcast function into the matter, or if it is possible for me to achieve this through this package.

Thank you!
Best,
Carlos.

[a1793182]

Hi Carlos,

I think you can do it via the package if the number of factors is greater than 1. I still get an error when the number of factors is equal to 1.

[carloshilal]

Same..

[aroaballesteros]

Me too, the algorithm iterates but at the end appear this error

Error in colnames<-(*tmp*, value = as.vector(sapply(X = 1:dim(blocks)[2], :
attempt to set 'colnames' on an object with less than two dimensions

[aroaballesteros]

Thank you!!