A link for those who might be interested in learning to use R for trading/testing purposes. Knowledge of R will then enable one to use some of the R packages listed here.
Edit 1: and one more useful link.
Edit 2: and yet another.
R Tutorials
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R Tutorials
Last edited by babelproofreader on Mon May 07, 2012 8:18 am, edited 2 times in total.
Appreciate the effort to share those links, Babelproofreader. To proceed further:
http://jeromyanglim.blogspot.ca/2010/05 ... ith-r.html
http://jeromyanglim.blogspot.ca/2009/06 ... rs-in.html
https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/h ... begin.html
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/usingR.pdf
I've found that most books on R leave much to be desired or focus far too much on freshman level introductory statistics, however the following book has exceeded expectations and does cover numerous relevant financial time series concepts: http://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-OReilly- ... 0596809158
http://jeromyanglim.blogspot.ca/2010/05 ... ith-r.html
http://jeromyanglim.blogspot.ca/2009/06 ... rs-in.html
https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/h ... begin.html
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/usingR.pdf
I've found that most books on R leave much to be desired or focus far too much on freshman level introductory statistics, however the following book has exceeded expectations and does cover numerous relevant financial time series concepts: http://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-OReilly- ... 0596809158
Re: R Tutorials
Datacamp has some excellent R courses: https://www.datacamp.com