

sunspots {base}                              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n_:

     Monthly sunspot numbers from 1749 to 1983. Collected at
     Swiss Federal Observatory, Zurich until 1960, then
     Tokyo Astronomical Observatory.

_U_s_a_g_e_:

     data(sunspots)

_F_o_r_m_a_t_:

     A time series of monthly data from 1749 to 1983.

_S_o_u_r_c_e_:

     D. F. Andrews and A. M. Herzberg (1985).  Data: A Col-
     lection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student
     and Research Worker.  New York: Springer-Verlag.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s_:

     data(sunspots)
     plot(sunspots, main = "sunspots data", xlab = "Year",
          ylab = "Monthly sunspot numbers")

