getting started with tsa3

If you don't have R installed already, see the section below. Otherwise, download tsa3.rda to a convenient location; it's a small file, less than 1 MB. Then start R and type load("tsa3.rda") at the prompt. After you do this, you will have all the data and scripts necessary to duplicate the examples and work the problems. Details can be found in Appendix R of the text, which includes a short tutorial on time series in R.

Your operating system will not know what to do with tsa3.rda outside of R. See the revision history & notes page for further information.

where's the data and code?

Everything, except the code used in the examples, is included in tsa3.rda. After you load it, if you want to save a data file or script to an ascii file, investigate save, write and write.table in R.

You are free to use the data or to alter the scripts in any way you see fit. We only have two requests: reference the text if you use something from it, and contact us if you find any errors or have suggestions for improvement of the code.

getting started with R

To download R, go to CRAN. The installation includes help files and some user manuals. In addition, you can find helpful tutorials by following CRAN's link to Contributed Documentation. If you're new to R/Splus, then R for Beginners is a great introduction and Quick R is a helpful website. There's also a lot of advice out there in cyberspace, but some of it will be outdated because R goes through many revisions.

The R issues for time series analysis page is still alive because, while everything changes, some things stay the same.

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