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Intermediate R for Finance

Lore Dirick

Manager of Data Science Curriculum at Flatiron School

Packages

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Packages

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CRAN

Comprehensive R Archive Network
More than 10000 packages

Installing packages

# Download from CRAN
install.packages("quantmod")

# Load into your current R session
library(quantmod)

quantmod functionality

library(quantmod)
getSymbols("IBM")

"IBM"

head(IBM, n = 3)

           IBM.Open IBM.High IBM.Low IBM.Close IBM.Volume IBM.Adjusted
2007-01-03    97.18    98.40   96.26     97.27    9196800     77.73997
2007-01-04    97.25    98.79   96.88     98.31   10524500     78.57116
2007-01-05    97.60    97.95   96.91     97.42    7221300     77.85985

plot(IBM$IBM.Adjusted)

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Let's practice!

Intermediate R for Finance