[R] R and Forex

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Yves S. Garret
<yoursurrogategod at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   I recently started learning about Forex and found this O'Reilly book in
> Barnes & Nobles about R.  I bought it out of pure curiosity.  I like what I
> see.  However, I have a question.  Has anyone tried to bring these two ideas
> together in a financial and trading sense?  Are there any libraries or
> modules in R that can aid in this venture?
>

> fortune('equity')

I have never heard anyone (knowledgable or otherwise) claim that, in the
absence of transition costs, SAS is better than R for equity modeling. If you
come across any such claim, I would be happy to refute it.
   -- David Kane
      R-SIG-Finance (December 2004)


You may want to address this question to r-sig-finance, and check out
the Finance Task View [1]. Regards
Liviu

[1] http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/views/Finance.html


> --Yves
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