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"R" and "S-plus"
2 messages · prad s u, Brian Ripley
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, prad s u wrote:
I apologize in advance if this is the wrong area to post this message. I would like to know if there is an "R" equivalent for the "S+finMetrics" package? I'd like to be able to use "R" to go through the examples
No. S+FinMetrics is a *module*, Insightful proprietary code which is an additional-cost addon for S-PLUS. It is not part of S-PLUS per se.
provided in the book "Modeling Financial Time-Series with S-Plus" (E. Zivot and J. Wang). I was told that "R" and "S-Plus" were very similar.
Please ask the person who told you that what (s)he meant by it. Then look together at the R FAQ for an informed answer.
and I am relatively new to both languages. I would appreciate any help in locating such packages, or alternate suggestions.
There are various facilities for financial time series available for R (see the FAQ, again) but you won't be able to work through that book with them.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595