Exercise

Quandl - A first date

Hello, and welcome to this interactive tutorial on how to use Quandl with R. If you are not familiar with Quandl, it is like a Google for numerical data that allows you to find and use numerical data easily and fast. It is an open platform that wants to offer everyone a rich collection of high quality numerical data on thousands of subjects.

The cool thing about Quandl is that every single dataset is available via the API, irrespective of where or how or in what format the data was originally published. You can do up to 50 anonymous API calls per day, and 500 if you are a signed-in user.

In this tutorial you will look at how to use Quandl within your favorite statistical language: R! Quandl is available as an R package on CRAN so you have all the power of the Quandl API directly in your R console.

Let's warm-up with an easy exercise...

Instructions

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  • Load the Quandl package with the help of library().
  • Load your dataset NSE/OIL with the Quandl() function, and assign it to the variable mydata. For now, don't worry about the format.