[R] R-help Time Series

[(Ted Harding)]

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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