R/housing.R

In speegled/tswrdata: Data for use with the book, Time Series with R, by Darrin Speegle.

#' Australian Housing Starts and Activity
#' 
#' From the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Building approvals for each month are published as well
#' as the value of building that was done each quarter. The building approvals are averaged to give quarterly
#' values.
#' 
#' @format A data frame with 4769 observations of 2 variables
#' \describe{
#'   \item{year}{From 1996-2006.}
#'   \item{quarter}{Integer value from 1-4}
#'   \item{approvals}{Total dwellings approved per month averaged over the quarter}
#'   \item{activity}{Chain volume measured in millions of 2004 AUD}
#' }
#'
#' @source Inroductory Time Series with R, by Cowpertwait and Metcalfe
"housing"