Welcome to R and the R-help list Not oriented to finance but just general info A good source of introductory sources is available at http://www.introductoryr.co.uk/R_Resources_for_Beginners.html. BTW I've never seen the author's book but it does look interesting. :)
I have had a look at most of the on-line books listed and I'd say any of them is likely to be very helpful. I have read a good bit of the book by Daniel Navarro and it is a excellent intro but possibly a bit tedious if you already are well grounded in stats. Pat Burn's (of The R Inferno infamy ) has a new tutorial out which looks interesting. It is listed in the above link (Impatient R) My personal opinion is that An Introduction to R by W.N. Venables and D.M. Smith (2004) is an excellent resource but it is only an introduction if you already are a pretty knowledgeable stats and programming type. However, when you hit a problem it is one of the first places to look for help. If you have experience with SAS or SPSS then Bob Muenchen's R FOR SAS AND SPSS USERS (www.et.bs.ehu.es/~etptupaf/pub/R/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf) also available in expanded hard-copy format, can be extremely useful. A couple of very useful sites for crafting questions for R-help or Stack http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example and http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Reproducibility.html. In fact, just following the instructions for preparing a decent example can lead to a solution to the problem. John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: chow.bo...@gmail.com > Sent: Sun, 10 May 2015 10:44:31 +0800 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] New to R > > Dear R users, > > I am new to R community and would like to dig into it. Would you advise > what are the appropriate steps to do so? > > I want to do a pricing of an American option as my first exercise. Can > some experienced users give me some pointers to do so? > > Thanks a lot, > Boris > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE 5GB EMAIL - Check out spam free email with many cool features! Visit http://www.inbox.com/email to find out more! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
