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
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()
andpretty()
, 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