What are the practitioners' thoughts on R

[herron]

I see a lot of chatter about VBA. C#, and C++, but nothing about the statistics. I am on the academic side (finance PhD student -- so I use R frequently and have yet to use my C++) and I'm really curious if many are using R and, if so, which packages, resources, and tricks you find most useful.

I am looking forward to hearing your thought! Thanks,

-- Richard

 

[alain]

We use it a lot at work for modeling.

 

[Roger Trimble]

I find quantmod to be the most useful along with fgarch and tawny. Beat Navy.

 

[herron]

I am familiar with the first two, but I haven't heard of (\texttt{tawny}). I will have to check it out. Beat Army!

-- Richard

 

[Sanket Patel]

..Beat Navy...

OSU did; Navy, though, should have won the game.