[R-sig-finance] Re: [R] General Question on learning R...

[Jonathan Q.]

assuming one has these installed already, you just look in the demo
folder under each?  i.e., fBasics\demo ???

On 5/3/05, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at pdf.com> wrote:
>          I'm looking at the same thing.  A good source for this is to
> 'install.packages(c("fBasics", "fCalendar", "fExtremes", "fMultivar",
> "fOptions", "fPotfolio", "fractdiff", "fSeries", "its", "lme4",
> "zoo"))', then 'update.packages()'.  These will install subdirectories
> or folders with the indicated names "fBasics", etc., in "library" with
> your R installation.  For example, in my Windows installation, I have
> "D:\Program files\R\rw2010pat\library", which contains many subfolders
> including ones named "fSeries".  These all contain files "*.R", which
> provide sample code.
> 
>          spencer graves
> 
> Sean Davis wrote:
> 
> >
> > On May 3, 2005, at 6:46 AM, Jonathan Q. wrote:
> >
> >> In the process of learning R, with a specific interest on financial
> >> time series.  While I continue to get through the documents I am more
> >> a fan of learning by example and then looking up how each function is
> >> used.  Any websites which post sample code for R?
> >>
> >
> > The largest source of example code is R itself.  If you have a command
> > in which you are interested, you can often just type the command and the
> > code will be shown to you.  Try typing:
> >
> > ls()
> >
> > Then:
> >
> > ls
> >
> > It will show you the code used to produce the result.  Also, each
> > command has its own example(s) in the help.
> >
> > Sean
> >
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Jonathan
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