DataMarket is a portal with over 14,000 data sets from various public and private sector organizations - more than 100 million time series available for download and analysis.
David Smith, RevolutionAnalytics Blog, Aug 2011
DataMarket, a portal that provides access to more than 14,000 data sets from various public and private sector organizations, has more than 100 million time series available for download and analysis. (Check out this
presentation for more info about DataMarket.)
And now with the new package rdatamarket, it's trivially easy to import those time series into
R for charting, analysis, or anything. Here's what you need to do:
- Register an account on DataMarket.com (it's free)
- Install the rdatamarket package in R with install.packages("rdatamarket")
- Browse DataMarket.com for a time series of interest (I found this series on
unemployment)
- Copy the URL of the page you're on (the short URL works too, I used "http://data.is/qb61uf")
- Use the dmseries function with the URL to extract the time series as a zoo object
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