Re: [datatable-help] Have monthly data, need log of the difference. How?

[ellie]

Thank you for replying! I'll try to attach an image of some of my data, so
you will see the structure. I want to run some regressions with the natural
log of the difference, so I guess the first step would be to extract the
change between each date? I'm almost completely new to R, and would
appreciate any tips on how to proceed.
 



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Re: [datatable-help] Have monthly data, need log of the difference. How?

[jim holtman]

You can probably do it in R.  Can you show an example of what you data
looks like and then the type of transformation that you would like to do.


Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:17 AM, ellie  wrote:

> So I have monthly data in an excel file, but what I need to make my
> calculations in the natural log of the difference. Is there a built in
> function in R that will let me transform my data this way, or do I need to
> do it in excel before importing the data to R?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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[datatable-help] Have monthly data, need log of the difference. How?

[ellie]

So I have monthly data in an excel file, but what I need to make my
calculations in the natural log of the difference. Is there a built in
function in R that will let me transform my data this way, or do I need to
do it in excel before importing the data to R?

Thanks!



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