us_monthly: US Monthly Total Natural Gas Consumption

In USgas: The Demand for Natural Gas in the US

US Monthly Total Natural Gas Consumption

Description

The dataset provides information about the total monthly natural gas consumption in the US between 2001 and 2020

Units: Million Cubic Feet

Usage

us_monthly

Format

A data.frame with 2 variables.

date

A Date, the month and year of the observation (the day set by default to 1st of the month)

y

A numeric, the US monthly total natural gas consumption in a million cubic feet

Details

The dataset contains monthly summary of the total demand for natural gas in the US between 2001 and 2020.

Source

US Energy Information Administration (EIA) website.

Examples

data("us_monthly")

head(us_monthly)

at_x <- seq.Date(from = as.Date("2000-01-01"),
                 to = as.Date("2020-01-01"),
                 by = "5 years")

at_y <- pretty(us_monthly$y)[c(2, 4, 6)]

plot(us_monthly$date, us_monthly$y,
     col = "#1f77b4",
     type = "l",
     frame.plot = FALSE,
     axes = FALSE,
     panel.first = abline(h = at_y, col = "grey80"),
     main = "US Total Natural Gas Consumption",
     xlab = "Source: https://www.eia.gov/",
     ylab = "Million Cubic Feet")



mtext(side =1, text = format(at_x, format = "%Y"), at = at_x,
      col = "grey20", line = 1, cex = 0.8)

mtext(side =2, text = format(at_y, scientific = FALSE), at = at_y,
      col = "grey20", line = 1, cex = 0.8)

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