<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">You can probably do it in R. Can you show an example of what you data looks like and then the type of transformation that you would like to do.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>Jim Holtman<br>Data Munger Guru<br> <br>What is the problem that you are trying to solve?<br>Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:17 AM, ellie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ellinor.gyldberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">ellinor.gyldberg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So I have monthly data in an excel file, but what I need to make my<br>
calculations in the natural log of the difference. Is there a built in<br>
function in R that will let me transform my data this way, or do I need to<br>
do it in excel before importing the data to R?<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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