General Question on learning R...

From: Spencer Graves

	  Yes.  Thanks for the elaboration.  What differences 
might one expect 
between the contents of "\demo" and "\R-ex"?  (I found 
"\R-ex" with all 
the packages I named, but not all had "\demo".)

	  spencer graves

There seem to be different

Jonathan Q. wrote:

assuming one has these installed already, you just look in the demo
folder under each?  i.e., fBasics\demo ???

On 5/3/05, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves@pdf.com> wrote:

        I'm looking at the same thing.  A good source for 

this is to

'install.packages(c("fBasics", "fCalendar", "fExtremes", 

"fMultivar",

"fOptions", "fPotfolio", "fractdiff", "fSeries", "its", "lme4",
"zoo"))', then 'update.packages()'.  These will install 

subdirectories

or folders with the indicated names "fBasics", etc., in 

"library" with

your R installation.  For example, in my Windows 

installation, I have

"D:\Program files\R\rw2010pat\library", which contains many 

subfolders

including ones named "fSeries".  These all contain files 

"*.R", which

provide sample code.

        spencer graves

Sean Davis wrote:

On May 3, 2005, at 6:46 AM, Jonathan Q. wrote:

In the process of learning R, with a specific interest on 

financial

time series.  While I continue to get through the 

documents I am more

a fan of learning by example and then looking up how each 

function is

used.  Any websites which post sample code for R?

The largest source of example code is R itself.  If you 

have a command

in which you are interested, you can often just type the 

command and the

code will be shown to you.  Try typing:

ls()

Then:

ls

It will show you the code used to produce the result.  Also, each
command has its own example(s) in the help.

Sean