Appendix A
‘How to’ guide to 
This appendix is a compact guide to the language which focuses on special aspects of the language that are relevant to this book. A review of packages useful in finance will be discussed in Appendix B. Along with these pages, the reader is also invited to read the quick guide called ‘An Introduction to ’ that comes with every installed version of or the introductory book on the environment by Dalgaard (2008).
A.1 Something to Know First About
All commands in must be typed via the command-line interface, and graphical user interfaces (GUI) are very limited, with a few exceptions, such as the package Rcmdr by John Fox.
All the commands are given as inputs to ...
