by Daniel Hanson QA Data Scientist, Revolution Analytics Some Applications of the xts Time Series Package In our previous discussion, we looked at accessing financial data using the quantmod and Quandl R packages. As noted there, the data series returned by quantmod comes in the form of an xts time series object, and Quandl provides a parameter that sets the return object of type xts. As the xts R package comes included with the quantmod package, it is not necessary to reload it as long as quantmod has been loaded. In this article, we will look at some of the...