R related rescources

What's is R?

• A short definition | FAQ
• Comparisons: R,Matlab,Excel,SAS,SPSS,Stata | SAS,R,Python | R,SAS | Tools | Top Languages for analytics,data mining,data science
• Article : On the growth of R and Python for data science
• Discussion: R vs. SAS

Download and Install R

• r-project.org ==>CRAN ==>a location ==>download | or here
• YouTube: Windows (6m39s) | Mac (13m21s)

My book "Financial Modeling using R" (2018)

• Amazon | Book cover | Teach R to finance students

• Business Analystics using R (undergraduate, teaching schools)
• Financial Analysis with R (graduate, research schools)

Manuals,reference cards, documents, journals

• Manuals: An Introduction to R | R Language Definition
• Reference cards: Baron | time series| Quandel or here
• Sort docs: reference card by Tom Short
• Long docs: R Archives
• R Journal

R basics

• >q() (quit R) | quit 2 | quit 3
• comment lines | Quick- R
• Windows FAQ? | How to make a QR code?

R user conferences

• 2015 | 2014 (abstracts) | 2013 | 2012| 2011
• 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2004
links

R packages

• Click here, click 'package', then choose.

Manuals for 2 dozen finance related R packages

• Data: fImport | quantmod | XML | XBRL | pdfetch | MFDA | fExtremes
• Portfolio: portfolio | PortRisk | Markowitz R | porfolioSim | stockPortfolio | FRAPO(Fin Risk Modelling/Portfolio Optimization)
• Modeling: quantmod |m4fe (Models for Financial Economics) | fMultivar | AppliedPredictiveModeling | fAssets | SMFI5 | moments
• Trading: fTrading | backtest
• Options: RQuantLib | fOptions | OptHedging | fAsianOptions | fExoticOptions | AmericanCallOpt | LSMonteCarlo (American options) | opefimor
• Term: termstrc | YieldCurve
• High frequency: TAQMNGR | PIN (Probability of informed trading) | FinAsym
• Others: financial | timeSeries | FinancialInstrument

200 R packages for finance

• All finance packages | 3 lines to install all | results

Simulations

• Random price movement