Convenient ways of computing both simple and log returns are at the very end of:
http://www.portfolioprobe.com/2012/11/05/an-easy-mistake-with-returns/ Those work whether you have a vector or a matrix. Pat On 17/12/2012 17:16, kevj1980 wrote:
Hi, I have an n x m matrix of numerical observations. ie. stock prices I wish to convert the matrix of observations to a matrix of simple returns (by taking the differences between (column) observations.) Can any good soul suggest a function for this? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-beginner-matrix-algebra-tp4653335.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
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