Welcome to a Little Book of R for Time Series!
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By `Avril Coghlan <http://www.sanger.ac.uk/research/projects/parasitegenomics/>`_,
Parasite Genomics Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, U.K. 
Email: alc@sanger.ac.uk

This is a simple introduction to time series analysis using the R statistics software.

There is a pdf version of this booklet available at
`https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/a-little-book-of-r-for-time-series/latest/a-little-book-of-r-for-time-series.pdf <https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/a-little-book-of-r-for-time-series/latest/a-little-book-of-r-for-time-series.pdf>`_.

If you like this booklet, you may also like to check out my booklet on using
R for biomedical statistics, 
`http://a-little-book-of-r-for-biomedical-statistics.readthedocs.org/
<http://a-little-book-of-r-for-biomedical-statistics.readthedocs.org/>`_,
and
my booklet on using R for multivariate analysis,
`http://little-book-of-r-for-multivariate-analysis.readthedocs.org/
<http://little-book-of-r-for-multivariate-analysis.readthedocs.org/>`_.

Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   src/installr.rst
   src/timeseries.rst

Acknowledgements
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I am grateful to `Professor Rob Hyndman <http://robjhyndman.com/>`_, for kindly allowing me to use the time series data sets
from his `Time Series Data Library (TSDL) <http://robjhyndman.com/TSDL/>`_ in the examples in this booklet. 

Thank you to Noel O'Boyle for helping in using Sphinx, `http://sphinx.pocoo.org <http://sphinx.pocoo.org>`_, to create
this document, and github, `https://github.com/ <https://github.com/>`_, to store different versions of the document
as I was writing it, and readthedocs, `http://readthedocs.org/ <http://readthedocs.org/>`_, to build and distribute
this document.

Contact
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I will be very grateful if you will send me (Avril Coghlan) corrections or suggestions for improvements to
my email address alc@sanger.ac.uk 

License
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The content in this book is licensed under a `Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>`_.