(This article was first published on Milk Trader, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
The following screencast demonstrates the use of R, the quantmod R package and bash to process SPX data from 1950. An explanation on how to access a git repository that includes the plots and the R console history is also provided. This screencast produced the data and the plot for the 17018d5488 post on algorithmzoo.comAlternate site:
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