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Financial Market Data for R/Rmetrics
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Verlag: | Finance Online |
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ISBN/EAN: | 9783906041049 |
Sprache: | englisch |
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Beschreibungen
Please note: This book is outdated, some of the functions and examples will only work with version R 2.15 or earlier.
Are you working with R and Rmetrics in the field of teaching finance? Then you will often use financial market data from the Internet, most likely downloaded from an Internet portal like Yahoo Finance or the Federal Reserve.
You may have asked yourself whether there are also other data sources on the Internet that can be used for courses and lectures and how can the download functions be customized to your personal needs. This Rmetrics eBook tries to answer questions you might have about these issues.We will show you how to access and download financial market data from the Internet. We will also show you how to write convenient download and listing functions to make your life more comfortable.
In this eBook you will find solutions for how to compose download URLs, how to download financial time series and how to generate listings for the financial instruments to make the search for individual time series easier. In all cases examples and exercises are given.
Are you working with R and Rmetrics in the field of teaching finance? Then you will often use financial market data from the Internet, most likely downloaded from an Internet portal like Yahoo Finance or the Federal Reserve.
You may have asked yourself whether there are also other data sources on the Internet that can be used for courses and lectures and how can the download functions be customized to your personal needs. This Rmetrics eBook tries to answer questions you might have about these issues.We will show you how to access and download financial market data from the Internet. We will also show you how to write convenient download and listing functions to make your life more comfortable.
In this eBook you will find solutions for how to compose download URLs, how to download financial time series and how to generate listings for the financial instruments to make the search for individual time series easier. In all cases examples and exercises are given.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Managing Data from the Internet
Time Series Functions
Reading Data from the Internet
Basic Statistics of Time Series
Plotting Financial Time Series
Part II: Equity Markets
Yahoo Finance Portal
OnVista Finance Portal
Part III: Interest Rate and Bond Markets
Board of Governors H15 Report
US Federal Reserve Bank
Bundesbank Time Series Database
Part IV: Exchange Rate Markets
OANDA FX Internet Porta
FRED Foreign Exchange Rates
Bundesbank FX Rates
Appendix
Required Packages
Lynx Reader
Rmetrics Terms of Legal Use
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Managing Data from the Internet
Time Series Functions
Reading Data from the Internet
Basic Statistics of Time Series
Plotting Financial Time Series
Part II: Equity Markets
Yahoo Finance Portal
OnVista Finance Portal
Part III: Interest Rate and Bond Markets
Board of Governors H15 Report
US Federal Reserve Bank
Bundesbank Time Series Database
Part IV: Exchange Rate Markets
OANDA FX Internet Porta
FRED Foreign Exchange Rates
Bundesbank FX Rates
Appendix
Required Packages
Lynx Reader
Rmetrics Terms of Legal Use