Hey, no problem! We all have to start somewhere, welcome to R!
The structure of the for loop is as follows:
 First lets define the number you want, say
 >vector.size = 100000
  First allocate an empty vector to store the results, you could do this
like so
> V95.Vector<-c()
  But I recommend you do it like so
> V95.Vector=rep(NA,vector.size)
Basically what this does is make a vector of NA's (of length n) for you to
store into, that way if something goes wrong in your loop it will be easier
to catch. This is better to use when you know the size of your vector from
the start( in my opinion), which you do.
Now, lets allocate a variable for the counting, say 'loop.count'
So we have:
>for( loop.count in 1:vector.size) #Count each time from 1 to the number we
defined, vector.size
{
  x=rnorm(250,0,0.02) #generate data
  library(timeSeries) #Note that you can call this before the loop, because
once you read it in, its there to stay, this will make your loop much
slower.
  x=timeSeries(x) #Apply sum function to data
  P=1000  #You can and should also call this before the loop if it doesn't
change.
  loss=-P*x #calc
  v95=quantile(loss,0.95) #Quantile
  V95.Vector[loop.count]=v95 #Store into index of this loop.
}
   And that should be it, as far as relevant reading
Peter Daalgard's Introductory Statistics with R is very good if you do not
know other programming languages.
Crowleys R Book is the Bible as it were, and is very very good. Electronic
copies are available.
              Good luck!
                Ken
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:35 AM, UnitRoot <akhussanov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Can someone help me out to create a (for?) loop for the following
> procedure:
>
> x=rnorm(250,0,0.02)
> library(timeSeries)
> x=timeSeries(x)
> P=1000
> loss=-P*x
> loss
> v95=quantile(loss,0.95)
> v95
>
> I would like to generate 100 000 v95 values.
> Also, can anybody name a source where I could read up basic programming in
> R?
> Thank you.
>
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