Yearly Sunspot Data, 1700-1988. Monthly Sunspot Data, 1749-1997.

Usage

data(sunspot)

Format

The univariate time series sunspot.year and sunspot.month contain 289 and 2988 observations, respectively. The objects are of class "ts".

Description

Monthly and yearly number of sunspots.

Source

Monthly data: SUNSPOT INDEX DATA CENTER, WORLD DATA CENTER-C1 FOR SUNSPOT INDEX ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM, Av. Circulaire, 3 - B-1180 BRUSSELS http://www.oma.be/KSB-ORB/SIDC/sidc_txt.html

Yearly data: H. Tong (1996) Non-Linear Time Series. Clarendon Press, Oxford, p. 471.

See Also

sunspot.month is a longer version of sunspots in base R, that runs until 1988.

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