[R-SIG-Finance] Return.annualized(PerformanceAnalytics)

Brian G. Peterson brian at braverock.com
Thu Jan 21 21:13:53 CET 2010


Jorge Nieves wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a dataSet of returns with 15 columns. I would like to compute the
> geometric annualized returns.  I can do that easily with a loop, but I
> was wondering it can be done with the apply function. If so, does anyone
> knows the syntax?
>
>   This is the specification I would like to use.
>
> Return.annualized(x, scale = 252, geometric = TRUE)
>   
Return.annualized has had multi-column support since September of last 
year.  It will apply over your columns for you.

Regards,

  - Brian

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