| % File src/library/datasets/man/euro.Rd |
| % Part of the R package, https://www.R-project.org |
| % Copyright 1995-2007 R Core Team |
| % Distributed under GPL 2 or later |
| |
| \name{euro} |
| \docType{data} |
| \alias{euro} |
| \alias{euro.cross} |
| \title{Conversion Rates of Euro Currencies} |
| \description{Conversion rates between the various Euro currencies.} |
| \usage{ |
| euro |
| euro.cross |
| } |
| \format{ |
| \code{euro} is a named vector of length 11, \code{euro.cross} a |
| matrix of size 11 by 11, with dimnames. |
| } |
| \details{ |
| The data set \code{euro} contains the value of 1 Euro in all |
| currencies participating in the European monetary union (Austrian |
| Schilling ATS, Belgian Franc BEF, German Mark DEM, Spanish Peseta ESP, |
| Finnish Markka FIM, French Franc FRF, Irish Punt IEP, Italian Lira |
| ITL, Luxembourg Franc LUF, Dutch Guilder NLG and Portuguese Escudo |
| PTE). These conversion rates were fixed by the European Union on |
| December 31, 1998. To convert old prices to Euro prices, divide by |
| the respective rate and round to 2 digits. |
| |
| The data set \code{euro.cross} contains conversion rates between the |
| various Euro currencies, i.e., the result of |
| \code{outer(1 / euro, euro)}. |
| } |
| \examples{ |
| cbind(euro) |
| |
| ## These relations hold: |
| euro == signif(euro, 6) # [6 digit precision in Euro's definition] |
| all(euro.cross == outer(1/euro, euro)) |
| |
| ## Convert 20 Euro to Belgian Franc |
| 20 * euro["BEF"] |
| ## Convert 20 Austrian Schilling to Euro |
| 20 / euro["ATS"] |
| ## Convert 20 Spanish Pesetas to Italian Lira |
| 20 * euro.cross["ESP", "ITL"] |
| |
| require(graphics) |
| dotchart(euro, |
| main = "euro data: 1 Euro in currency unit") |
| dotchart(1/euro, |
| main = "euro data: 1 currency unit in Euros") |
| dotchart(log(euro, 10), |
| main = "euro data: log10(1 Euro in currency unit)") |
| } |
| \keyword{datasets} |