R Dataset / Package ISLR / Weekly
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Weekly data set which pertains to Weekly S&P Stock Market Data. The Weekly data set is found in the ISLR R package. You can load the Weekly data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Weekly"). This will load the data into a variable called Weekly. If R says the Weekly data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("ISLR") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Weekly R data set. The size of this file is about 62,683 bytes.
Weekly S&P Stock Market Data
Description
Weekly percentage returns for the S&P 500 stock index between 1990 and 2010.
Usage
Weekly
Format
A data frame with 1089 observations on the following 9 variables.
Year
-
The year that the observation was recorded
Lag1
-
Percentage return for previous week
Lag2
-
Percentage return for 2 weeks previous
Lag3
-
Percentage return for 3 weeks previous
Lag4
-
Percentage return for 4 weeks previous
Lag5
-
Percentage return for 5 weeks previous
Volume
-
Volume of shares traded (average number of daily shares traded in billions)
Today
-
Percentage return for this week
Direction
-
A factor with levels
Down
andUp
indicating whether the market had a positive or negative return on a given week
Source
Raw values of the S&P 500 were obtained from Yahoo Finance and then converted to percentages and lagged.
References
Games, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013) An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R, www.StatLearning.com, Springer-Verlag, New York
Examples
summary(Weekly) lm(Today~Lag1+Lag2,data=Weekly)
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.