R/Finance 2011 slides and follow-up
The organizing committee for the R/Finance 2011 conference is pleased to announce the availability of presentation slides from the 3rd annual R/Finance conference. This year's two-day conference once again attracted over 200 participants from across the globe. Academics, students and industry professionals enjoyed almost 30 talks covering trading, optimization, risk management and more --- all using R!
The majority of these presentations are now available for download at:
http://www.rinfinance.com/agenda/
HTML 5 Websocket implementation for the R language
With popular CMS systems such as Drupal 7, you can now make them HTML 5 compliant and integrate with R!
R/Websockets Package
Get the R package from CRAN here: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/websockets/index.html
Get the development code here: https://github.com/bwlewis/R-Websockets
The reference vignette is available here (sorry, it's pretty basic): websockets.pdf
Financial Risk Models in R Factor Models for Asset Returns and Interest Rate Models - Scottish Financial Risk Academy 15/03/2011
Eric Zivot
Robert Richards Chaired Professor of Economics
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Applied Mathematics,
Finance and Statistics
University of Washington
BlackRock Alternative Advisors, Seattle WA
http://faculty.washington.edu/ezivot/research/factorModelTutorial_handout.pdf
A New IDE for R (another new IDE for R!) RStudio
But is this the 'Killer-App' for R (or a key App for a suite of apps for R?)
Whatever I do this week I cant get away from RStudio, its on my LinkedIn discussion boards, its on Twitter, its on Facebook; its everywhere
An Object-Oriented Framework for Statistical Simulation
An Object-Oriented Framework for Statistical Simulation:
The R Package simFrame
Andreas Alfons
Matthias Templ
Peter Filzmoser
Vienna University of Technology
Oracle Announces New Financial Services Solution for Enterprise-Wide Stress Testing
Oracle® Reveleus Enterprise Risk Analytical Applications Enable Financial Institutions to Respond to Challenges to Capital Adequacy and Help Guard Against Future Threats to Liquidity
ANNOUNCEMENT: Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco, CA – October 13, 2009
StackOverflow - the R tag! Everything You ever wanted to know but were too scared to ask!!! (Literally)
StackOverflow - the R tag! Everything You ever wanted to know but were too scared to ask!!! (Literally)
Prediction and Fuzzy Logic at ThomasCook to automate price settings of last minute offers

The R User Conference 2009
July 8-10, Agrocampus-Ouest, Rennes, France.
Presentation by Jan Wijffels, ThomasCook Belgium & BNOSAC – Belgium Network of Open Source Analytical Consultants – www.bnosac.be



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