[R] R-help Time Series

[Gabor Grothendieck]

 <Ted.Harding <at> nessie.mcc.ac.uk> writes:

: 
: Hi Folks,
: 
: While I was browsing in the R-help archives yesterday,
: I got curious about the time series of the sizes of
: the monthly archives in MB.
: 
: This turned out to have an unexpected feature or two,
: which I leave to readers to explore for themselves.
: 
: I'm now wondering at what point in time we might expect
: to be receiving 1000MB/month (30+MB/day). It's not that
: far away, it seems, but there are a couple of interesting
: modelling questions behind it.
: 
: In particular, I wonder by what mechanism the numbers
: grow, according to the law which the data seem to indicate.
: 
: Over to you.
: 
: (just my 0.001 MB worth ... excluding headers)
: 
: Ted
: 
: To save you the trouble, the following sets up the series:
: 
: MB<-c(55,19,19,18,19,17,35,27,47,
: 55,32,50,55,41,49,50,28,53,42,81,54,
: 99,60,84,80,76,75,78,61,83,97,141,122,
: 96,144,173,153,226,202,131,165,183,175,168,187,
: 240,272,262,195,236,244,285,249,326,345,392,268,
: 455,320,418,453,468,422,447,400,323,516,478,327,
: 450,487,535,658,573,606,659,543,655,722,677,567,
: 519,703,886,793,719,816,812,730,698,831,969,736,
: 855)
: 
: April 1997 -- January 2005


There were some discussions on this about a year ago:

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/04/1071.html

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/04/1095.html

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/04/1109.html