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A fancy stock chart

It's time to bring together what you have learned so far to create a chart that could go onto a publication.

In this exercise, you will plot Microsoft and Citigroup stock prices on the same chart. You are provided with the same dataset, data, as before.

This exercise is part of the course

Visualizing Time Series Data in R

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Exercise instructions

  • Plot the "microsoft" series in data and add the title "Dividend date and amount"
  • Without creating a new plot, add the "citigroup" series to the plot, and make its line "orange" and twice as thick as the default width
  • Add an appropriately scaled Y axis on the right side of the chart for the "citigroup" data using axis() and pretty(), and make it orange

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Plot the microsoft series


# Add the citigroup series


# Add a new y axis for the citigroup series
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