Welcome to Introduction to R for Finance!

Introduction to R for Finance

Lore Dirick

Manager of Data Science Curriculum at Flatiron School

A Hands-On Course

What will you learn?

• Basics of R
• Data structures
• Finance examples

Console

• Execute R commands

Console

Variables or objects

Variables or objects

Variables or objects

my_number <- 5

my_number

5

Arithmetic in R

dan <- 100
rob <- 50

dan + rob

150

total <- dan + rob
total

150

R Scripts

• script.R

dan <- 100
rob <- 50
total <- dan + rob
total

dan <- 100
rob <- 50
total <- dan + rob
total

150

Let's practice!

Introduction to R for Finance