Hi, I normally code in python and matlab so I am quite new to R. What can I do to get started quickly?
Hi,
If you are familiar with other programming languages, you will pick up R coding quickly.
To speed things up, we have listed the best online tutorials and books we could find here:
https://wiki.alphien.com/ALwiki/R_Tutorial_References#Table_of_tutorial_references
As first steps, we advise you get familiar with basic data structures in R (vectors, lists, data.frames), and then with the way time series are manipulated. On the platform, we use xts. A very handy cheat sheet about xts can be found here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/blog_assets/xts_Cheat_Sheet_R.pdf
Another meaningful resource on financial time series in R is the ebook A Discussion of Time Series Objects for R in Finance (2009), Diethelm Würtz, Yohan Chalabi, Andrew Ellis (https://www.rmetrics.org/downloads/9783906041001-tseries2nd.pdf)
Lastly, in this book, Basic R for Finance, Diethelm Würtz, Tobias Setz, Yohan Chalabi, Longhow Lam, Andrew Ellis (https://www.rmetrics.org/downloads/9783906041025-basicr.pdf), you will find some very useful tools and tips to debug your code (traceback() and debug() functions for instance) in chapter II. 6.
thank you!!