Download some monthly Australian retail data from the book website. These represent retail sales in various categories for dierent Australian states, and are stored in a MS-Excel le.
a. You can read the data into R with the following script:
The second argument ( skip=1 ) is required because the Excel sheet has two header rows.
b. Select one of the time series as follows (but replace the column name with your own chosen column):
c. Explore your chosen retail time series using the following functions:
Can you spot any seasonality, cyclicity and trend? What do you learn about the series?
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