(This article was first published on FOSS Trading, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
quantmod, TTR, and xts were (not so) recently featured on the Inference for R Blog. Inference for R is a Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed specifically for R.The post gives an example of how to easily perform advanced financial stock analysis using Inference in Excel.
I appreciate how they're making R more accessible to a general audience, even though I like a command line interface and my preferred development environment is vim. :-)
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Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
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