Plotting Time Series Growth Rates

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The ts_growth_rate_vec() function is part of the healthyR.ts library, designed to work with numeric vectors or time series data. It calculates the growth rate or log-differenced growth rate of the provided data, offering valuable insights into the underlying trends and patterns.

Read on to see how this function works, as well as several examples of plotting growth rates of airline data which exhibits both strong cycles and an overall trend.