RetailSales: Retail Sales

In rpruim/Lock5withR: Datasets for 'Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data'

Description

Monthly U.S. Retail Sales (in billions)

Format

A data frame with 144 observations on the following 3 variables.

• Month Month of the year

• Year Year (from 2002 to 2011)

• Date Date in date format (day of month is meaningless)

• Sales U.S. retail sales (in billions of dollars)

Details

Data show the monthly retail sales (in billions) for the U.S. economy in each month from 2002 through 2011.

Source

http://www.census.gov/retail/

Examples

data(RetailSales)
if (require(lattice)) {
  xyplot(Sales ~ Date, RetailSales, type='l')
  xyplot(Sales ~ Date, RetailSales, type='l', groups=Month)
}

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