While there's been an informal coterie of R users in the Chicago area for some time (notably the fine folks behind the successful R/Finance conferences) there hasn't been a formal R User Group. Until now, that is. JD Long has taken the plunge and announced the new Chicago R User Group on meetup.com. If you're in the Chicagoland area,...
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UCLA and LA RUG talks on R and C++ integration
We spent last week in the LA area and had a generally good time out west. I was able to sneak in two talks and a group discussion, thanks to the help by Jan de Leeuw (and everybody at UCLA's Stats department) as well as by Szilard Pafka representing th...
UCLA and LA RUG talks on R and C++ integration
We spent last week in the LA area and had a generally good time out west. I was able to sneak in two talks and a group discussion, thanks to the help by Jan de Leeuw (and everybody at UCLA's Stats department) as well as by Szilard Pafka representing ...
Finance::YahooQuote 0.24
Having espoused rule number one in regression testing in the post about yesterday's bug fix upload 0.23, we can now add rule number zero: Do not introduce a new error by omitting the trailing semicolon. I guess it shows that I don't really program in P...
Finance::YahooQuote 0.24
Having espoused rule number one in regression testing in the post about yesterday's bug fix upload 0.23, we can now add rule number zero: Do not introduce a new error by omitting the trailing semicolon. I guess it shows that I don't really program in...
Finance::YahooQuote 0.23
Rule number one in regression testing is to not depend on volatile data. Which I seem to have violated in file t/02simple.t in the Perl package Finance::YahooQuote. Which lead the automated Perl test scripts to remind me for a few days now that the fu...
Finance::YahooQuote 0.23
Rule number one in regression testing is to not depend on volatile data. Which I seem to have violated in file t/02simple.t in the Perl package Finance::YahooQuote. Which lead the automated Perl test scripts to remind me for a few days now that the f...
Tools
All the tools I am using at the moment are free of charge. The one that comes to mind first is R. It’s a language for statistical computing which comes with a decent GUI. R comes with some time series support out of the box, but there are plenty of packages (R extensions are called 
Modified Donchian Band Trend Follower using R, Quantmod, TTR
I've been toying around with the examples given on the FOSS trading site for some of the great work they've put together in the Quantmod and TTR packages. Those viewers who are looking for a nice (and free) backtesting suite to possibly complement s...
In case you missed it: February roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users. We announced the availability on YouTube of "What is R", a 4-part video based on a recent webcast I hosted. We announced a webinar I hosted on REvolution's debugger for R (a recorded replay is now available). We linked Salvio Rodrigues...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
