[R-SIG-Finance] Fundamental analysis library?

[spencerg]

      I have not seen a reply to this post, so I will offer a comment.  
Consider the following: 


library(RSiteSearch)
fa <- RSiteSearch.function("fundamental analysis")
HTML(fa)


      This returned 19 matches in 9 different packages, none of which 
seemed to be related to finance. 


      Also, the character string "fundamental analysis" does not appear 
in Wuertz, et al. (2009) Portfolio Optimization with R/Rmetrics 
(www.rmetrics.org/ebook.htm). 


      I got four hits in the Quantlib documentation 
(http://quantlib.org/reference/index.html).  Quantlib is C++, but R code 
could be written to connect to portions of Quantlib not already included 
in the RQuantLib package.  If you want to write such, I suggest you 
contact the RQuantLib author and maintainer, Dirk Eddelbuettel.  The 
RQuantLib documentation says, "Further software contributions are 
welcome."  [help(package=RQuantLib) and 
http://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=117]


      Hope this helps. 
      Spencer Graves


Joshua Reich wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is anyone aware of any fundamental analysis oriented packages for R? In my
> previous job I had written a large set of tools in R for dealing with many
> of the data cleaning, accounting alignment and analysis issues that uniquely
> present themselves in fundamental analysis. Before I started writing that I
> never really searched around for pre-existing code, so I figure I should ask
> now before I dive into doing it all again...
>
> If no such thing exists, would anyone be interested in joining me in
> developing a package? I don't wish upon anyone the pain of dealing with
> restatements, shifting accounting periods, solving for missing quarters,
> reconciling balance sheets with income statements, etc. - so why not have a
> single package that deals with this?
>
> Josh Reich
>
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