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Data sets from "Forecasting: methods and applications" by Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998)
Description
All data sets from "Forecasting: methods and applications" by Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (Wiley, 3rd ed., 1998).
Author(s)
Rob J Hyndman. Rob.Hyndman@monash.edu
References
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. https://robjhyndman.com/forecasting/
Sales and advertising expenditure
Description
Monthly sales and advertising expenditure for an automotive parts company.
Usage
advert
Format
Data frame containing the following columns:
- advert
- Monthly Advertising expenditure 
- sales
- Monthly sales volume 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 6.7. Exercise 8.1.
Examples
plot(sales ~ advert, data=advert)
Sales volume and advertising expenditure
Description
Sales volume and advertising expenditure for a dietary weight control product.
Usage
advsales
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 8.
References
Blattberg and Jeuland (1981).
Examples
plot(advsales)
Monthly Airline Passenger Numbers 1949-1960
Description
The classic Box & Jenkins airline data. Monthly totals of international airline passengers (1949–1960).
Usage
airpass
Format
A monthly time series, in thousands.
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 2.4, Chapter 3, Exercise 4.7.
References
Box, Jenkins and Reinsell (1994) Time series analysis: forecasting and control, 3rd edition, Holden-Day: San Francisco. Series G.
Examples
plot(airpass)
seasonplot(airpass)
tsdisplay(airpass)
Attributes of some US and Japanese automobiles
Description
Price, mileage, age and country of origin for 45 automobiles.
Usage
auto
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- Model
- Name of model 
- Country
- Country of manufacture 
- Mileage
- Mileage per gallon 
- Price
- Price of car at time of measurement 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, Wiley: New York. Chapter 2.
References
Consumer Reports, April 1990, pp.235-255.
Examples
plot(Price ~ Mileage, data=auto, pch=19, col=2)
points(auto$Mileage[auto$Country=="USA"],
 auto$Price[auto$Country=="USA"], pch=19, col=4)
legend(30,25000,legend=c("USA","Japan"), pch=19, col=c(4,2))
Mutual savings bank deposits
Description
Deposits in a mutual savings bank in a large metropolitan area.
Usage
bank
Format
Data frame containing the following columns:
- EOM
- End of month balance 
- AAA
- Composite AAA bond rates 
- threefour
- US Government 3-4 year bonds 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 6.
Examples
plot(bank)
Monthly beer production
Description
Monthly Australian beer production: Jan 1991 – Aug 1995.
Usage
beer
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 2.
Examples
plot(beer)
seasonplot(beer)
tsdisplay(beer)
Annual bituminous coal production
Description
Annual bituminous coal production in the USA: 1920–1968.
Usage
bicoal
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 7.7.
Examples
tsdisplay(bicoal)
Sales of paperback and hardcover books
Description
Daily sales of paperback and hardcover books at the same store.
Usage
books
Format
Bivariate time series containing the following columns:
- Paperback
- Number of paperback sales each day 
- Hardcover
- Number of hardcover sales each day 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 4.5.
Examples
plot(books)
Monthly dollar volume of sales
Description
Monthly dollar volume of sales on Boston stock exchange and combined New York and American stock exchange. January 1967 – November 1969.
Usage
boston
Format
Bivariate time series containing the following columns:
- nyase
- New York and American Stock Exchange dollar volume 
- bse
- Boston Stock Exchange dollar volume 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 6.5
References
McGee and Carleton (1970) Piecewise regression, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 65, 1109–1124.
Examples
plot(boston)
Quarterly clay brick production
Description
Australian quarterly clay brick production: 1956–1994.
Usage
bricksq
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 1 and Exercise 2.3.
Examples
plot(bricksq)
seasonplot(bricksq)
tsdisplay(bricksq)
Canadian unemployment rate
Description
Canadian unemployment rate as a percentage of the civilian labor force between 1974 and the third quarter of 1975.
Usage
canadian
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 4.1.
Examples
plot(canadian)
Quarterly capital expenditure and appropriations
Description
Seasonally adjusted quarterly capital expenditure and appropriations in U.S. manufacturing: 1953–1974.
Usage
capital
Format
Bivariate time series containing the following columns:
- capital
- Quarterly capital expenditure for US manufacturing. 
- appropriations
- Quarterly capital appropriations for US manufacturing. 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 8.
Examples
plot(capital)
Cement composition and heat data
Description
Cement composition and heat data.
Usage
cement
Format
Data frame containing the following columns:
- pc1
- Percentage by weight of component 1 
- pc2
- Percentage by weight of component 2 
- pc3
- Percentage by weight of component 3 
- heat
- Heat emitted in calories per gram of cement. 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 6.4
Examples
plot(cement)
Price of chicken
Description
Price of chicken in US (constant dollars): 1924–1993.
Usage
chicken
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.
Examples
plot(chicken)
Condensed milk
Description
Manufacturer's Stocks of evaporated and sweetened condensed milk.
Usage
condmilk
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 7.5.
Examples
plot(condmilk)
seasonplot(condmilk)
tsdisplay(condmilk)
Copper price
Description
Yearly copper prices, 1800–1997 (in constant 1997 dollars).
Usage
copper
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.
Examples
plot(copper)
Copper prices
Description
Monthly copper prices for 28 consecutive months (in constant 1997 dollars).
Usage
copper1
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.
Examples
plot(copper1)
Copper prices
Description
Yearly copper prices for 14 consecutive years (in constant 1997 dollars).
Usage
copper2
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.
Examples
plot(copper2)
Copper prices
Description
Yearly copper prices for 43 consecutive years (in constant 1997 dollars).
Usage
copper3
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.
Examples
plot(copper3)
Temperature of a cow
Description
Daily morning temperature of a cow. Measure at 6.30am for 75 consecutive mornings by counting chirps from a telemetric thermometer implanted in the cow. Data are chirps per 5-minute interval minus 800.
Usage
cowtemp
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercises 2.3 and 2.4.
References
Velleman, Paul. (1981) The ABC of EDA, Duxbury Press.
Examples
plot(cowtemp)
tsdisplay(cowtemp)
Consumer price index
Description
Quarterly CPI (consumer price index) for Victoria: Q1 1980 to Q2 1995.
Usage
cpimel
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 8.7.
Examples
tsdisplay(cpimel)
Dexterity test and production ratings
Description
Scores on manual dexterity test and production ratings for 20 workers.
Usage
dexter
Format
Data frame containing the following columns:
- score
- Test score for manual dexterity 
- production
- Production rating 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 5.4
Examples
plot(production~score, data=dexter, pch=19, col=3)
Dow-Jones index
Description
Dow-Jones index on 251 trading days ending 26 Aug 1994.
Usage
dj
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 7.
References
Brockwell and Davis (1996)
Examples
tsdisplay(dj)
Unemployment benefits in Australia
Description
Monthly total of people on unemployment benefits in Australia (Jan 1965 – Jul 1992).
Usage
dole
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 2.3.
Examples
plot(dole)
tsdisplay(dole)
Dow-Jones index
Description
Dow-Jones index, 28 Aug - 18 Dec 1972.
Usage
dowjones
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 2.7.
Examples
tsdisplay(dowjones)
Electricity consumption and temperature
Description
Electricity consumption and maximum temperature for 12 randomly chosen days.
Usage
econsumption
Format
Data frame containing the following columns:
- Mwh
- Daily electricity consumption (megawatt-hours) 
- temp
- Daily maximum temperature (degrees Celsius) 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 5.5
Examples
plot(Mwh ~ temp, data=econsumption, pch=19, col=4)
Price of eggs
Description
Price of dozen eggs in US, 1900–1993, in constant dollars.
Usage
eggs
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.
Examples
plot(eggs)
Sales of electric knives
Description
Sales of electric knives: Jan 1991 - April 1992.
Usage
eknives
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 4.2.
Examples
plot(eknives)
Sales of Elco's laser printers
Description
Sales of Elco's laser printers: 1992–1998.
Usage
elco
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 10.
Examples
plot(elco)
Electricity production
Description
Australian monthly electricity production: Jan 1956 – Aug 1995.
Usage
elec
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapters 1–2, 7.
Examples
plot(elec)
seasonplot(elec)
tsdisplay(elec)
Expenditure
Description
Expenditure for 12 supermarket customers.
Usage
expenditure
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 2.
Examples
hist(expenditure)
Sales for a souvenir shop
Description
Monthly sales for a souvenir shop on the wharf at a beach resort town in Queensland, Australia.
Usage
fancy
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 5.8.
Examples
plot(fancy)
seasonplot(fancy)
Industry index
Description
French index of industry.
Usage
french
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 4.4.
Examples
plot(french)
Housing data
Description
Monthly housing starts, construction contracts and average new home mortgage rates (Jan 1983 - Oct 1989).
Usage
housing
Format
Trivariate time series containing the following columns:
- hstarts
- Monthly housing starts (thousands of units) 
- construction
- Construction contracts (millions of dollars) 
- interest
- Average new home mortgage rates 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 8.
References
Survey of current business, US Department of Commerce, 1990.
Examples
plot(housing)
Sales of one-family houses
Description
Monthly sales of new one-family houses sold in the USA since 1973.
Usage
hsales
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 3.
References
US Census Bureau, Manufacturing and Construction Division
Examples
plot(hsales)
plot(stl(hsales,"periodic"),main="Sales of new one-family houses, USA")
Sales of new one-family houses
Description
Sales of new one-family houses in the USA (Jan 1987 – Nov 1995).
Usage
hsales2
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 7.10.
Examples
plot(hsales2)
seasonplot(hsales2)
tsdisplay(hsales2)
Level of Lake Huron
Description
Level of Lake Huron in feet (reduced by 570 feet): 1875–1972.
Usage
huron
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 8.2.
Examples
plot(huron)
IBM sales and profit
Description
IBM sales and profit (1954-1984) and forecasts.
Usage
ibm
Format
Time series data
- Sales
- IBM annual sales 
- Profit
- IBM annual profit 
- FSales
- Forecast of IBM sales made in 1984 
- FProfit
- Forecast of IBM profits made in 1984 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.
Examples
par(mfrow=c(2,1))
plot(ibm[,1], xlim=c(1954,2000), ylim=c(0,200),
  ylab="Sales (billions of $)", xlab="Year", type="o")
lines(ibm[,3],col=2,type="o")
plot(ibm[,2], xlim=c(1954,2000), ylim=c(-10,30),
  ylab="Profits (billions of $)", xlab="Year", type="o")
lines(ibm[,4],col=2,type="o")
Closing IBM stock price
Description
Daily closing IBM stock price.
Usage
ibmclose
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 7.2.
References
Box, Jenkins and Reinsell (1994) Time series analysis: forecasting and control, 3rd edition, Holden-Day: San Francisco.
Examples
tsdisplay(ibmclose)
Input series
Description
Input series for exercise 8.6.
Usage
input
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 8.6.
Examples
plot(input)
Number of internet users
Description
Number of users logged on to an internet server each minute over a 100-minute period.
Usage
internet
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 7.
Examples
tsdisplay(internet)
Inventory demand
Description
Inventory demand for product E15.
Usage
invent15
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 2.6. Also Chapter 4.
Examples
plot(invent15)
Motor vehicle production
Description
Japanese motor vehicle production in thousand (1947–1989).
Usage
jcars
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 2.8. Chapter 8.
References
World motor vehicle data, Motor Vehicle Manufacturers of US Inc, Detroit, 1991.
Examples
plot(jcars)
log.jcars <- BoxCox(jcars,0)
jcars.f <- holt(log.jcars)
plot(jcars.f)
King Kong data
Description
King Kong data.
Usage
kkong
Format
Data frame consisting of following columns
- weight
- Weights of 21 gorillas 
- height
- Heights of 21 gorillas 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 5. Exercise 5.6.
Examples
plot(weight~height, data=kkong, pch=19, col=2)
Civilian labour force
Description
Number of persons in the civilian labour force in Australia each month (Feb 1978 - Aug 1995).
Usage
labour
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 3.8.
Examples
plot(labour)
labour.stl <- stl(labour,10)
plot(labour.stl)
monthplot(labour.stl$time.series[,1],type="h")
Annual Canadian Lynx trappings 1821–1934
Description
Annual number of lynx trapped in McKenzie river district of northwest Canada: 1821–1934.
Usage
lynx
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 2.3.
References
Campbell, M. J.and A. M. Walker (1977). A Survey of statistical work on the Mackenzie River series of annual Canadian lynx trappings for the years 1821–1934 and a new analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series A, 140, 411–431.
Examples
plot(lynx)
tsdisplay(lynx)
Monthly milk production per cow
Description
Average monthly milk production per cow over 14 years (January 1962 - December 1975).
Usage
milk
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 2.
References
Cryer (1986) Time series analysis, Duxbury Press: Belmont.
Examples
par(mfrow=c(2,1))
plot(milk,xlab="Year",ylab="pounds",
    main="Monthly milk production per cow")
milk.adj <- milk/monthdays(milk)*365.25/12
plot(milk.adj,xlab="Year",ylab="pounds",
    main="Adjusted monthly milk production per cow")
Number of minks trapped
Description
Annual number of minks trapped in McKenzie river district of northwest Canada: 1848–1911.
Usage
mink
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 2.4.
Examples
tsdisplay(mink)
Mortality
Description
Bird mortality for 156 poultry farms, Aug 1995 - Jul 1996.
Usage
mortal
Format
Data frame containing the following columns:
- typeA
- Percentage of Type A birds for each farm. 
- mortality
- Percentage mortality of all birds for each farm. 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 5.9
Examples
plot(mortality~typeA, data=mortal)
Total accommodation at hotel, motel and guest house
Description
Total room nights occupied and total monthly takings from accommodation at hotel, motel and guest house in Victoria, Australia: Jan 1980 - June 1995.
Usage
motel
Format
Bivariate time series containing the following columns:
- Roomnights
- Total room nights 
- Takings
- Total monthly takings (thousands of dollars) 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 8.7.
Examples
plot(motel[,2], motel[,1], xlab="Room nights", ylab="Takings",
  pch=19, col=4)
Employment figures in the motion picture industry
Description
Monthly employment figures for the motion picture industry (SIC Code 78): Jan 1955 – Dec 1970.
Usage
motion
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 7.9.
References
"Employment and earnings, US 1909–1978", Department of Labor, 1979.
Examples
plot(motion)
seasonplot(motion)
tsdisplay(motion)
Nail prices
Description
Nail prices, 1800–1996 in constant dollars.
Usage
nail
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.
Examples
plot(nail)
Oil prices
Description
Oil prices in constant 1997 dollars: 1870–1997.
Usage
oilprice
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 10.
Examples
plot(oilprice)
Men's 400 m final winning times in each Olympic Games
Description
Winning times for the men's 400 m final in each Olympic Games: 1896–1996.
Usage
olympic
Format
Data frame containing the following columns:
- Year
- Year of Olympics 
- time
- Winning time in 400m final 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 5.7
Examples
plot(time~Year, data=olympic, pch=19, col=3)
Ozone depletion and melanoma rates
Description
Ozone depletion and melanoma rates in various locations.
Usage
ozone
Format
Data frame containing the following columns:
- ozonedep
- Ozone depletion rates as percentages 
- melanoma
- Melanoma rates as percentages 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 5.3.
Examples
plot(ozonedep~melanoma, data=ozone, pch=19, col=2)
Average temperature
Description
Average monthly temperature in Paris.
Usage
paris
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 2.1.
Examples
plot(paris)
seasonplot(paris)
tsdisplay(paris)
GDP
Description
GDP for Western Europe and PCV industry sales.
Usage
pcv
Format
Bivariate time series consisting of the following columns
- GDP
- GDP Western Europe 
- PCV
- PCV Industry sales 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 5.
Examples
plot(PCV~GDP, data=pcv, pch=20, col=2)
Sales of petroleum and related product
Description
US monthly sales of petroleum and related product: Jan 1971 - Dec 1991.
Usage
petrol
Format
Multivariate time series data:
- Chemicals
- Sales of chemicals and allied products 
- Coal
- Sales of Bituminous coal products 
- Petrol
- Sales of petroleum and coal products 
- Vehicles
- Sales of motor vehicles and parts 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 8.
Examples
plot(petrol)
Number of pigs slaughtered
Description
Monthly total number of pigs slaughtered in Victoria, Australia (Jan 1980 – Aug 1995).
Usage
pigs
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 7.
Examples
tsdisplay(pigs)
Sales of plastic product
Description
Monthly sales of product A for a plastics manufacturer.
Usage
plastics
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 3.5.
Examples
plot(plastics)
seasonplot(plastics)
plot(stl(plastics,"periodic"))
Shipment of pollution equipment
Description
Monthly shipments of pollution equipment (in thousands of French francs), Jan 1986 – Oct 1996.
Usage
pollution
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 7.
Examples
tsdisplay(pollution)
Sales of product C
Description
Sales of product C (a lubricant sold in large containers).
Usage
productC
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 1.
Examples
plot(productC)
Pulp price and shipments
Description
World pulp price and shipments.
Usage
pulpprice
Format
Data frame consisting of following columns
- shipments
- World pulp shipments 
- price
- World pulp price 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 5.
Examples
plot(shipments~price, data=pulpprice)
Electricity production
Description
Quarterly electricity production.
Usage
qelec
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 3.4.
Examples
plot(decompose(qelec))
Sales data
Description
Quarterly exports of a French company in thousands of francs.
Usage
qsales
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 3.7 and Table 4-7.
Examples
plot(qsales)
Running times and maximal aerobic capacity
Description
Running times and maximal aerobic capacity for 14 female runners.
Usage
running
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 2.5.
References
Conley, Krahenbuhl, Burkett and Millar (1981) Physiological correlates of female road racing performance, Research Quarterly Exercise Sport, 52, 441–448.
Examples
plot(times~capacity, data=running, pch=19, col=2)
Sales data
Description
Sales data over 10 time periods.
Usage
sales
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 5.
Examples
plot(sales,type="p")
abline(lsfit(1:10,sales))
Perceptual speed scores
Description
Daily perceptual speed scores for a schizophrenic patient. The patient began receiving a powerful tranquilizer (chlorpromzaine) on the 61st day and continued receiving the drug for the remainder of the sample period. It is expected that this drug would reduce perceptual speed.
Usage
schizo
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 8.8.
References
McCleary and Hay (1980).
Examples
plot(schizo)
Sales of shampoo
Description
Sales of shampoo over a three year period.
Usage
shampoo
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 3.
Examples
plot(shampoo)
Sheep population
Description
Sheep population (in millions) of England and Wales: 1867–1939.
Usage
sheep
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 7.6.
References
Kendall (1976).
Examples
tsdisplay(sheep)
Electric can opener shipments
Description
Electric can opener shipments.
Usage
ship
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 4. Exercise 4.6.
Examples
plot(ship)
Shipments
Description
Shipments
Usage
shipex
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 3.1
Examples
plot(shipex)
Number of strikes
Description
Number of strikes in the US from 1951 to 1980.
Usage
strikes
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 7.4
References
Brockwell and Davis (1991)
Examples
tsdisplay(strikes)
Telephone cost
Description
Telephone cost in San Francisco, New York: 1915–1996.
Usage
telephone
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.
Examples
plot(telephone)
Price and consumption of natural gas
Description
Price and per capita consumption of natural gas in 20 towns in Texas.
Usage
texasgas
Format
Data frame containing the following columns:
- price
- Average price in cents per thousand cubic feet 
- consumption
- Consumption per customer in thousand cubic feet. 
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 5.10. Exercise 6.2.
Examples
plot(consumption ~ price, data=texasgas)
Total deaths and serious injuries
Description
Monthly total deaths and serious injuries on UK roads: Jan 1975 – Dec 1984. In February 1983, new legislation came into force requiring seat belts to be worn.
Usage
ukdeaths
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 8.
References
Harvey (1989)
Examples
plot(ukdeaths)
seasonplot(ukdeaths)
tsdisplay(ukdeaths)
Accidental deaths in USA
Description
Monthly accidental deaths in USA.
Usage
usdeaths
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercises 2.3 and 2.4.
Examples
plot(usdeaths)
seasonplot(usdeaths)
tsdisplay(usdeaths)
Total generation of electricity
Description
Monthly total generation of electricity by the U.S. electric industry (Jan 1985 - Oct 1996.
Usage
uselec
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 7.8.
Examples
plot(uselec)
seasonplot(uselec)
tsdisplay(uselec)
Treasury bill contracts
Description
US treasury bill contracts on the Chicago market for 100 consecutive trading days in 1981.
Usage
ustreas
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 1.
Examples
plot(ustreas)
tsdisplay(ustreas)
Real daily wages
Description
Real daily wages in pounds, England: 1260–1994.
Usage
wagesuk
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.
Examples
plot(wagesuk)
Wheat prices
Description
Wheat prices in constant 1996 pounds: 1264–1996.
Usage
wheat
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.
Examples
plot(wheat)
White noise series
Description
White noise series.
Usage
wn
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Exercise 7.3.
Examples
tsdisplay(wn)
White noise time series
Description
White noise time series with 36 values.
Usage
wnoise
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chpater 7.
Examples
tsdisplay(wnoise)
Sales of printing and writing paper
Description
Industry sales for printing and writing paper (in thousands of French francs): Jan 1963 – Dec 1972.
Usage
writing
Format
Time series data
Source
Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 7.
Examples
tsdisplay(writing)
seasonplot(writing)