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5 messages · Jonathan Q., Sean Davis, Spencer Graves

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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?

Thanks in advance.
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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:

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

            
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
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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:

            
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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: