<Ted.Harding <at> nessie.mcc.ac.uk> writes: : : Hi Folks, : : While I was browsing in the R-help archives yesterday, : I got curious about the time series of the sizes of : the monthly archives in MB. : : This turned out to have an unexpected feature or two, : which I leave to readers to explore for themselves. : : I'm now wondering at what point in time we might expect : to be receiving 1000MB/month (30+MB/day). It's not that : far away, it seems, but there are a couple of interesting : modelling questions behind it. : : In particular, I wonder by what mechanism the numbers : grow, according to the law which the data seem to indicate. : : Over to you. : : (just my 0.001 MB worth ... excluding headers) : : Ted : : To save you the trouble, the following sets up the series: : : MB<-c(55,19,19,18,19,17,35,27,47, : 55,32,50,55,41,49,50,28,53,42,81,54, : 99,60,84,80,76,75,78,61,83,97,141,122, : 96,144,173,153,226,202,131,165,183,175,168,187, : 240,272,262,195,236,244,285,249,326,345,392,268, : 455,320,418,453,468,422,447,400,323,516,478,327, : 450,487,535,658,573,606,659,543,655,722,677,567, : 519,703,886,793,719,816,812,730,698,831,969,736, : 855) : : April 1997 -- January 2005
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