test_that("Forecasting works with a time-varying parameter", { skip_on_cran() skip_on_ci() spde <- make_mesh(pcod, c("X", "Y"), n_knots = 50, type = "kmeans") nd <- replicate_df(qcs_grid, "year", unique(pcod$year)) grid2019 <- nd[nd$year == max(nd$year), ] grid2019$year <- 2019L qcsgrid_forecast <- rbind(nd, grid2019) grid2019$year <- 2018L qcsgrid_forecast <- rbind(qcsgrid_forecast, grid2019) grid2019$year <- 2016L qcsgrid_forecast <- rbind(qcsgrid_forecast, grid2019) m <- sdmTMB( data = pcod, formula = density ~ 0, time_varying = ~ 1, spatiotemporal = "AR1", extra_time = c(2016L, 2018L, 2019L), spatial = FALSE, time = "year", mesh = spde, family = tweedie(link = "log") ) print(m) predictions <- predict(m, newdata = qcsgrid_forecast) expect_true("data.frame" %in% class(predictions)) })