EastIndiesTrade {GDAdata} | R Documentation |
The data have been estimated from the graphic in the first edition of Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas by the website 'Me, myself, and BI'.
data(EastIndiesTrade)
A data frame with 81 observations on the following 3 variables.
Year
the data go from 1700 to 1780
Exports
Exports from England to the East Indies (millions of pounds)
Imports
Imports to England from the East Indies (millions of pounds)
http://blog.bissantz.com/vis-a-vis
data(EastIndiesTrade, package="GDAdata")
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(EastIndiesTrade, aes(x=Year, y=Exports-Imports)) + geom_line()