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2009 Mar 26
2
Getting started,
...ease excuse my ignorance.
I'm trying to download data direct from the Federal Reserve statistics
website and graph it, using the following:
#This downloads the data from the Fed website
download.file("http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/data/Business_day/H15_ED_M1.txt","Eurodollar_deposits1M.dat")
#This reads that data into a table
data_download=read.table("Eurodollar_deposits1M.dat",skip=8,sep=",",head=T)
#This is attempting to get R to read the date column, which is in
"mm/dd/yyyy" format
#I have restricted it to the first 50 data points (to ke...