R/housing.R

In fma: Data Sets from "Forecasting: Methods and Applications" by Makridakis, Wheelwright & Hyndman (1998)

#' Housing data
#'
#' Monthly housing starts, construction contracts and average new home mortgage
#' rates (Jan 1983 - Oct 1989).
#'
#' @format Trivariate time series containing the following columns:
#' \describe{\item{hstarts}{Monthly housing starts (thousands of units)}
#' \item{construction}{Construction contracts (millions of dollars)}
#' \item{interest}{Average new home mortgage rates} }
#' @references Survey of current business, US Department of Commerce, 1990.
#' @source Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) \emph{Forecasting:
#' methods and applications}, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 8.
#' @keywords datasets
#' @examples
#' plot(housing)
#'
"housing"