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Emerging Currencies with rCharts + FRED

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I liked this chart a lot.

#Dailychart: Argentina’s plunging peso is not alone: http://t.co/CWnaNLcm4T pic.twitter.com/4Nr6EgRGx9

— The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) January 27, 2014

I thought I would show how we can semi-replicate it in R with rCharts.  Here it is with the currencies that are on FRED with dimplejs.

… and here with nvd3.

Code to replicate from Github Gist:

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