No, that's not what I meant. I was curious if anyone has ever done this before and how well it worked. Any tips for a novice?
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Yves S. Garret > <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I recently started learning about Forex and found this O'Reilly book in > > Barnes & Nobles about R. I bought it out of pure curiosity. I like what > I > > see. However, I have a question. Has anyone tried to bring these two > ideas > > together in a financial and trading sense? Are there any libraries or > > modules in R that can aid in this venture? > > > > > fortune('equity') > > I have never heard anyone (knowledgable or otherwise) claim that, in the > absence of transition costs, SAS is better than R for equity modeling. If > you > come across any such claim, I would be happy to refute it. > -- David Kane > R-SIG-Finance (December 2004) > > > You may want to address this question to r-sig-finance, and check out > the Finance Task View [1]. Regards > Liviu > > [1] http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/views/Finance.html > > > > --Yves > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > -- > Do you know how to read? > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader > Do you know how to write? > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.