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2009 Mar 26
2
Getting started,
...don't have anyone who already knows the
language to ask for tips, so please 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
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