#bsvars
Hey, that's my package! 🖤💙 #bpvars #bsvars #rstats
December 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
There's a new package in da house! 💥💫 Meet bvarPANELs for Forecasting with Bayesian Hierarchical Panel Vector Autoregressions 🖤💙🤍

🏧 Install from GitHub: github.com/bsvars/bvarP...
🐦‍⬛ See its functionality: bsvars.org/2025-03-bvar...
🫐 Member of the bsvars family: bsvars.org

#bsvars #rstats #econsky
March 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
⚠️ Publication alert! ⚠️ The methodological paper for the bsvars package has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Econometrics! 📄 Here's it's author's accepted manuscript: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Watch this space! 👀 Lot's of goodies coming up! 🌟

#bsvars #rstats
October 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Something exciting is coming up! 📦

#rstats #StealLikeBayes #bsvars
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This is so cool!✨ Historical decomposition in the bsvars ❤️💛 and bsvarSIGNs 🖤💜 packages are fixed now by @adamwang15.bsky.social! 🐛

github.com/bsvars/bsvar...

#rstats #bsvars #bsvarSIGNs #cooperation #econsky
historical decomposition by adamwang15 · Pull Request #108 · bsvars/bsvars
Hey @donotdespair, Seems like this fixes the historical decomposition problem bsvars/bsvarSIGNs#47! Can be tested with this script: set.seed(123) devtools::load_all(".") T <- 100 N &...
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March 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Alright! 💝 Version 3.2 of the 𝗥 package 𝗯𝘀𝘃𝗮𝗿𝘀 for 𝔹𝕒𝕪𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕒𝕟 𝔼𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕠𝕗 𝕊𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕝 𝕍𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 has just landed on 𝙲𝚁𝙰𝙽! YAY! 💖
doi.org/10.32614/CRA...

#bsvars #rstats #foss #econsky
October 25, 2024 at 12:13 AM
💛🩷 install.packages("bsvars") #bsvars #rstats
August 26, 2026 at 5:31 AM
✨⭐ Here it comes! A new paper with fantastic Fei Shang That's another methodological paper for the R package bsvars! 🩷💛 Just have a look at the abstract! Rest assured we provide solid backing for each of them 🦾💪

More details coming up soon.

#bsvars #forecasting #MarkovSwitching #rstats #econsky
March 17, 2026 at 12:02 AM
🚀 Aww! It's so good when the promise of open source delivers and when the community starts contributing. Bruno found a small but impossible-to-find-otherwise typo in my R package bsvars 💝 submitted a PR, and it's all fixed now! Thanks, Bruno! ✨ github.com/bsvars/bsvar...

#bsvars #foss #rstats
Fix indexing in posterior sampling loop by brunolbcavalcante · Pull Request #136 · bsvars/bsvars
Loop using 's' but accessing 'S' (constant = n draws): S_T[,,s] = object$posterior$xi_cpp[S,1][[1]][,T,] # BUG: S -> s
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April 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
⭐ HA! A new working paper on software design for our R packages bsvars, bsvarSIGNs, and bvars is out!
✨ Have a look!
🌐 doi.org/10.48550/arX...
#forecasting #rstats #bsvars #bsvarSIGNs #bvars
August 31, 2026 at 1:29 AM
That's a co-author grade 🐲 Finds a mistake in preliminary code, corrects your C++ code, submits a Pull Request, becomes a contributor! I think we have a paper! Thanks, Fei Shang!

github.com/bsvars/bsvar...

#bsvars #rstats #cooperation
Correction of student-t df sampling by lcq110 · Pull Request #140 · bsvars/bsvars
I think I found a typo in src/sample_t.cpp, in function log_kernel_df(). The current code has: lk_df += 0.5 * T * aux_df * log(0.5 * (aux_df + 2)); lk_df -= 0.5 * (aux_df - 2) * accu(log(aux_lambda...
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July 1, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Alright! Tomasz' @tomaszwozniak.bsky.social workshop on Structural and Predictive Macro Analyses using the R Package bsvars ❤️💛 for the Workshops for Ukraine 💙💛 by @dariia.bsky.social has just been released on youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iO0...

It's good! 💝💖

#bsvars #rstats #econsky
Structural and Predictive Macro Analyses using the R Package bsvars
YouTube video by Dariia Mykhailyshyna
www.youtube.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hey hey! My new package 'bpvars' is on CRAN now! 🖤💙

It's for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions

doi.org/10.32614/CRA...

#bpvars #bsvars.org #bsvars #rstats
December 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hey! Please have a look at my lecture slides on 𝘉𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘝𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 with the application to a small model for Aussie monetary policy using my 𝗥 package 𝗯𝘀𝘃𝗮𝗿𝘀! 💝💖
bsvars.github.io/2024-10-be24...
#bsvars #rstats #structural #causaleffects
October 10, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Just a simple idea: bridge the gap between the responsibilities and objectives of academic researchers and governance institutions modellers with quality software packages! ...presented at the 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞!
github.com/bsvars/2024-...
#bsvars #bsvarSIGNs #econsky #rstats
November 25, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Another good source to learn about our @bsvars.org packages! #bsvars #rstats #econsky
bsvars.org bsvars @bsvars.org · Feb 27
So, now there are two youtube recordings about the bsvars packages, another one about "Predictive Analyses using R packages bsvars & bsvarSIGNs" 🖤💜 was presented for Forecasting for Social Good: youtu.be/QT02OTZWW14
Predictive Analyses using R packages bsvars & bsvarSIGNs
YouTube video by Forecasting for Social Good
youtu.be
February 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
🩷💛 new features in version 4.0 of the R package bsvars
🩷💛 new volatility models
🩷💛 Student-t shocks
🩷💛 identification verification
🩷💛 improved plot and summary
🩷💛 code improvements
🩷💛 bsvars.org/bsvars/
#bsvars #rstats #foss #econsky
August 24, 2026 at 6:51 AM
🩷💛 A new version 4.0 of the R package bsvars has just landed on CRAN!
🩷💛 Bayesian Estimation of Structural Vector Autoregressive Models
🩷💛 With plenty new features and models!
🩷💛 It's awesome!
🩷💛 bsvars.org/bsvars/
#bsvars #rstats #foss
August 23, 2026 at 6:15 AM
💖 WOOOHOOO!!! 💝 The {bsvars} package has just reached 20K DOWNLOADS! 🎀 Thank you so SO much! ✨

Watch this space! More great things are coming up soon!

#rstats #bsvars
October 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
It feels so good to give a presentation for Forecasting for Social Good 😺😻

Have a look at the slides for my presentation 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙍 𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙨𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙨𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙎𝙄𝙂𝙉𝙨 bsvars.org/2024-12-F4SG
Thanks for joining! 🩷💛 🖤🩷

#bsvars #bsvarSIGNs #rstats #f4sg #forecasting #socialgood #econsky
December 5, 2024 at 12:49 PM
⭐⭐⭐ bsvars has reached 30K downloads! ⭐⭐⭐
⭐⭐⭐ Infinite thanks to all the users! Thank you! ⭐⭐⭐
⭐⭐⭐ bsvars.org ⭐⭐⭐

⭐ Watch this space! There's lots of new things coming!

#bsvars #rstats #foss #econsky
August 21, 2026 at 5:53 AM
𝗯𝘀𝘃𝗮𝗿𝘀 stands for 𝗯ayesian 𝘀tructural 𝘃ector 𝗮uto𝗿egression𝘀! What were YOU thinking?! 🤣 😜 🙀 #bsvars #rstats #econsky
June 25, 2024 at 1:01 AM
🩷💛 A new version 4.0 of the R package bsvars has just landed on CRAN!
🩷💛 Bayesian Estimation of Structural Vector Autoregressive Models
🩷💛 With plenty new features and models!
🩷💛 It's awesome!
🩷💛 cran.r-project.org/package=bsvars
#bsvars #rstats #foss #econsky
August 23, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Coming up soon! A presentation of my 𝗥 packages 𝗯𝘀𝘃𝗮𝗿𝘀 and 𝗯𝘀𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝘀 for 𝔽𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝔾𝕠𝕠𝕕! Join us!

I love the movement and the IJF editors statement. And I'm working to answer the call.

So, this is my first chance!

#bsvars #bsvarSIGNs #f4sg #econsky #rstats #forecasting
November 20, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Here it comes! The beautiful logo for the 𝗯𝘀𝘃𝗮𝗿𝘀 package! YAY!
More details at: bsvars.github.io/bsvars/dev/
#rstats #bsvars
March 5, 2024 at 11:04 AM