Plotting Financial Time Series Data (Multiple Columns) in R

Let's take one more example of plotting financial time series data. This time we will use the EuStockMarkets data set that comes by default with R. It contains the daily closing prices of major European stock indices from 1991 to 1998.

Check and Print the Data

Let's first check if the data is a time series and then print a few values from the dataset to get a feel of the data.