Creating your own Google Trends plots in R

With this post, I want to demonstrate how you can use the R functions I've built to create your own Google Trends graphs.



First, install the functions by pasting this code into R.

You now have the following functions at your disposal:

• URL_GT(keywords)
• downoloadGT(url, downloadDir)
• readGT(file path)

By running the following code, you will get chart above.

#downloadDir=Where you save the csv from Google Trends
downloadDir="C:/downloads"
setwd(downloadDir)
keywords=c("Samsung", "Apple", "Nokia")
url=URL_GT(keywords)
filePath=downloadGT(url, downloadDir)
smartphones=readGT(filePath)

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(smartphones, aes(x=Date, y=SVI, color=Keyword))+geom_line()