R is only one out of many statistical packages offering
state-of-the-art forecasting methods. As mentioned above, its data processing capabilities are limited.
Other well-known packages that could be used include
WEKA time series forecasting [11] as well as several
Python modules, e.g., statsmodel [25] and Scikitlearn
[23]. Using Python modules, allows for tting
models to more data points compared to R and could
therefore yield better results.