Loading data into xts object

Forecasting Product Demand in R

Aric LaBarr, Ph.D.

Senior Data Scientist, Elder Research

xts objects

eXtensible Time Series object
Builds upon zoo objects

Loading Data Into xts Object

Attach a date index on to a data matrix
Very easy to manipulate!

DataCamp courses about xts

Loading Data Example

dates <- seq(as.Date("2014-01-19"), length = 176, 
                                    by = "weeks")

bev_xts <- xts(bev, order.by = dates)

head(bev_xts[,"M.hi"], n = 3)

            M.hi
2014-01-19  458
2014-01-26  477
2014-02-02  539

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Forecasting Product Demand in R

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