Hi,
 
As a follow up to the e-mail below, these are the latest entries of
CompAct's R Corner:
 
    - Issue 35: graphics, with a focus on claims reserving. Among others,
the ChainLadder package is used
    - Issue 36: A Toy Copula ERM Model in R (the same article with a few
added notes)
    - Issue 37: memory management: memory.size | memory.limit | bigmemory
project | big.matrix class
    - Issue 38: retrieving and managing time series data: tseries package |
get.hist.quote | merge
 
 
Regards,
Diego

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De: Diego Mazzeo [mailto:diegol81@gmail.com] 
Enviado el: Sábado, 06 de Febrero de 2010 12:26 a.m.
Para: 'r-sig-insurance@r-project.org'
Asunto: SOA CompAct - R Corner


Hi everyone,
 
The US Society of Actuaries (SOA) has a quarterly newsletter:
<http://www.soa.org/news-and-publications/newsletters/technology/compact-det
ails.aspx> CompAct Electronic Newsletter, which from issue 29 (Oct-2008)
onwards includes a column called R Corner. The articles are written by Steve
Craighead and so far most of them have been nicely aimed at picking up
useful basic concepts for the actuarial type. However there seems to be a
tendency that articles will get more complex and specific as introductory
topics are covered -- save for issue 34 ;).
 
Here is a summary of the concepts / subjects already dealt with:
 
    - Issue 29: introduction to CRAN | demo() | help()
    - Issue 30: read.csv() | write.csv() | RODBC package
    - Issue 31: data types: vectors | matrices | data.frames | related
functions
    - Issue 32: model formula framework: formula basics | LM | GLM | I()
    - Issue 33: cluster analysis | predictive modeling
    - Issue 34: user-defined functions
 
The only drawback seems to be that, as far as I can see, there are no
subscription / RSS options. If anyone knows how to get alerted of new
issues, please share!
 
Also from Steve Craighead:
<http://www.soa.org/library/newsletters/risk-management-newsletter/2008/marc
h/rmn-2008-iss12-craighead.pdf> A Toy Copula ERM Model in R.
 
 
Regards,
Diego

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