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YourCast works with multiple data sets in the same model. Thus, we require a more complicated data structure than the usual single data frame used for most statistical models in . Although you can create this object yourself and input it directly into the yourcast() function, it is normally easier to use the tools we created to build this data structure automatically. To do this requires following three steps: (1) labeling and organizing the data in a format we describe; (2) running the yourprep() function to prepare your data, create an input object in the format we need; and load it into ; and (3) running the yourcast() function to generate forecasts. We describe these steps in the following subsections, and follow it with a detailed example that illustrates all steps from start to end.