Use

 Data sets in package ‘fpp2’:

Assignmen1:
Exercise1:
Use the help function to explore what the series “gold” , “woolyrnq” and “gas” represent.
i. Use autoplot() to plot each of these in separate plots.
ii. What is the frequency of each series? Hint: apply the frequency() function.
iii. Use which.max() to spot the outlier in the gold series. Which observation was it?

Exercise2:
Use the ggseasonplot() and ggsubseriesplot() functions to explore the seasonal patterns in
the following time series: “writing” , “h02” .
i. What can you say about the seasonal patterns?
ii. Can you identify any unusual years?

Exercise3:
The “arrivals” data set comprises quarterly international arrivals (in thousands) to Australia
from Japan, New Zealand, UK and the US.
i. Use autoplot() , ggseasonplot() and ggsubseriesplot() to compare the differences
between the arrivals from these four countries.
ii. Can you identify any unusual observations?

Assignment2: Download some monthly Australian retail data from the book website
(https://otexts.com/fpp2/extrafiles/retail.xlsx). These represent retail sales in various
categories for different Australian states, and are stored in a MS-Excel file.

i. You can read the data into R with the following script:

retaildata <- readxl::read_excel("retail.xlsx", skip=1)

The second argument (skip=1) is required because the Excel sheet has two header rows.

ii. Select one of the time series as follows (but replace the column name with your own
chosen column):

myts <- ts(retaildata[,"A3349873A"],

frequency=12, start=c(1982,4))

iii. Explore your chosen retail time series using the following functions:

autoplot(), ggseasonplot(), ggsubseriesplot()