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ARMA Models for Trading

August 21, 2012 | ivannp

In this tutorial I am going to share my R&D and trading experience using the well-known from statistics Autoregressive Moving Average Model (ARMA). There is a lot written about these models, however, I strongly recommend Introductory Time Series with R, which I find is a perfect combination between light ... [Read more...]

introduction to R: learning by doing (part 1)

July 9, 2012 | ricckli

Geography is often about statistics as it is the basis for fast exchange of information: providing a mean and standard deviation to the audience is often much easier then showing raw data: Learning a script language for this purpose can be a hard-ass work. But I think it is more ... [Read more...]

reproducible documents/analytics in R: the knitr package

June 26, 2012 | ricckli

When I am working in new institutions and I am asking: “Do you have a document management system?” I often get the answer:”Yap, we are using folders” … OKAY. Making analysis, developing applications and keeping an eye on code, data and applications make this even harder as it has to ... [Read more...]

Choosing colour palettes. Part I: Introduction

May 29, 2012 | ggplot2

In this series of three posts, we’ll look at colours in R graphics produced with ggplot2: what are the available choices of colour schemes, and how to choose a colour palette most suitable for a particular graphic? In kindergarten, choosing a co... [Read more...]

Adding watermarks to plots

May 22, 2012 | ggplot2

A question was raised today on the mailing list: Is there an easy way to add a watermark to a ggplot? There are several options, depending on the type of watermark and the required level of control over the output, add a text label using annotate (th... [Read more...]

useR! 2012 Conference

April 25, 2012 | ricckli

“Spatial data is, quite literally, everwhere” (Barry Rowlingson) this is so true! And because of that you guys will have the chance to take part in a great tutroial on using R for managing geospatial data, transforming, making maps and working with OGC standards. So visit this years useR! conference ... [Read more...]

A Direct Marketing In-flight Forecasting System

February 29, 2012 | ronan

This is an edited version of A Direct Marketing In-flight Forecasting System. The original article was written by Shannon Terry and Ben Ogorekm, Nationwide Insurrance, in order to enter the “Applications of R in Business” contest organised by Revolution Analytics. This is the winning entry of the contest. I added ... [Read more...]

data.frame objects in R (via “R in Action”)

December 18, 2011 | Tal Galili

The followings introductory post is intended for new users of R.  It deals with R data frames: what they are, and how to create, view, and update them. This is a guest article by Dr. Robert I. Kabacoff, the founder of (one of) the first online R tutorials websites: Quick-R.  ... [Read more...]

FishBASE from R

August 26, 2011 | cboettig

In lab known for its quality data collection, high-speed video style, writing the weekly blog post can be a bit of a challenge for the local code monkey. That’s right, no videos today. But lucky for me, even this group … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Downloading S&P 500 Data to R

March 23, 2011 | QuantTrader

The cornerstone of your analysis and quantitative trading algorithms are data. There are lots of different ways how to do it in R (depending of what your investment instruments are). Today I am going to download data from finance.yahoo which are stock ... [Read more...]

Book review: 25 Recipes for Getting Started with R

February 24, 2011 | Tal Galili

Recently I was asked by O’Reilly publishing to give a book review for Paul Teetor new introductory book to R.  After giving the book some attention and appreciating it’s delivery of the material, I was happy to write and post this review.  Also, I’m very happy to ... [Read more...]

Create a Web Crawler in R

February 8, 2011 | --

Admittedly I am not the best R coder, and I certainly have a lot to learn, but the code at the link below should provide you with an example of how easy it is to create a very (repeat: very) basic web crawler in R.  If you wanted to do ... [Read more...]

Remove all rows of an R dataframe

January 13, 2011 | --

I should have probably figured this out a long time ago, but as I get deeper into programming with R, I am finding the need to remove all rows from a dataframe.  I was making this alot harder than it had to be. your.df [Read more...]
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