sunspot.month
Monthly Sunspot Data, from 1749 to "Present"
Monthly numbers of sunspots, as from the World Data Center, aka SIDC. This is the version of the data that will occasionally be updated when new counts become available.
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sunspot.monthFormat
The univariate time series sunspot.year and
sunspot.month contain 289 and 2988 observations, respectively.
The objects are of class "ts".
See Also
sunspot.month is a longer version of sunspots;
the latter runs until 1983 and is kept fixed (for reproducibility as example
dataset).
Examples
library(datasets)
# NOT RUN {
require(stats); require(graphics)
## Compare the monthly series
plot (sunspot.month,
main="sunspot.month & sunspots [package'datasets']", col=2)
lines(sunspots) # -> faint differences where they overlap
## Now look at the difference :
all(tsp(sunspots) [c(1,3)] ==
tsp(sunspot.month)[c(1,3)]) ## Start & Periodicity are the same
n1 <- length(sunspots)
table(eq <- sunspots == sunspot.month[1:n1]) #> 132 are different !
i <- which(!eq)
rug(time(eq)[i])
s1 <- sunspots[i] ; s2 <- sunspot.month[i]
cbind(i = i, time = time(sunspots)[i], sunspots = s1, ss.month = s2,
perc.diff = round(100*2*abs(s1-s2)/(s1+s2), 1))
## How to recreate the "old" sunspot.month (R <= 3.0.3):
.sunspot.diff <- cbind(
i = c(1202L, 1256L, 1258L, 1301L, 1407L, 1429L, 1452L, 1455L,
1663L, 2151L, 2329L, 2498L, 2594L, 2694L, 2819L),
res10 = c(1L, 1L, 1L, -1L, -1L, -1L, 1L, -1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 20L, 1L))
ssm0 <- sunspot.month[1:2988]
with(as.data.frame(.sunspot.diff), ssm0[i] <<- ssm0[i] - res10/10)
sunspot.month.0 <- ts(ssm0, start = 1749, frequency = 12)
# }
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