Economic Nowcasting with Bridge Equations and Real-Time Evaluation R package nowcast version 0.1.0 Provides bridge equations with optional autoregressive terms for nowcasting low-frequency macroeconomic variables (e.g. quarterly GDP) from higher-frequency indicators (e.g. monthly retail sales). Handles the ragged-edge problem where different indicators have different publication lags via mixed-frequency alignment. Includes pseudo-real-time evaluation with expanding or rolling windows, and the Diebold-Mariano test for comparing forecast accuracy following Harvey, Leybourne, and Newbold (1997) <doi:10.1016/S0169-2070(96)00719-4>. No API calls; designed to work with data from any source. Software Depends: R (>= 4.1.0) Imports: cli (>= 3.6.0), grDevices, graphics, stats Suggests: spelling, testthat (>= 3.0.0) Charles Coverdale <charlesfcoverdale@gmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Charles Coverdale [aut, cre, cph] MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nowcast/LICENSE) 2026-03-25 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nowcast doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.nowcast en-US