Penalized Regression with Inferred Seasonality Module - Forecasting Unemployment Initial Claims using 'Google Trends' Data R package PRISM.forecast version 0.2.1 Implements Penalized Regression with Inferred Seasonality Module (PRISM) to generate forecast estimation of weekly unemployment initial claims using 'Google Trends' data. It includes required data and tools for backtesting the performance in 2007-2020. Software Imports: xts, glmnet, zoo, stats, utils Dingdong Yi <ryan.ddyi@gmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Dingdong Yi [aut, cre], Samuel Kou [aut], Shaoyang Ning [aut] GPL-2 2020-10-21 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PRISM.forecast doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.PRISM.forecast