What Patrick wrote.

Learning R is really best done simply by diving straight in. It's not a
difficult language to learn, even if some of its quirks are really
peculiar. One good book to start with would be "Modern Applied
Statistics with R" by Venables and Ripley, which provides code, graphs,
and suggestions on how to write good, robust R code.

On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 08:56 -0600, Ben Nachtrieb wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone have any good R-Finance tutorials?
> 
> I can perform basic operations in R and I have a Master's degree in
> finance/investments; however, I would like to ties these together with an
> R-Finance tutorial. In other words, I need better understanding of the
> best packages and built-in functions available to me and how to use them. I
> don't want to reinvent the wheel so-to-speak.
> 
> Basically I do quant analysis on forex, futures, and equities. So it is the
> usual time series, trade execution, portfolio, security ranking, back
> testing, optimization, etc. related functions and packages I am interested
> in. I will be using these programatically, so a good "front-end" or UI is
> not necessary (and would not be used).
> 
> Does anyone have any good R-Finance tutorials?
> 
> What I do not need is a Tutorial on R or Finance separately.
> 
> I already have "Time Series Analysis - With Applications in R end Edition",
> but that is it...at this point.
> 
> Thanks!
> 



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