June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
1783 pages
71h 22m
English
In the following section, we will learn the implementation of the previously described models with the help of R.
In Chapter 4, Big Data – Advanced Analytics, we will discuss in detail the aspects and methods of getting data from open sources and working with them efficiently. Here, we only present how the time series of stock prices and other relevant information can be acquired and used for the factor model's estimations.
We used the quantmod package to collect the database.
Here is how it works in R:
library(quantmod) stocks <- stockSymbols()
As a result, we need to wait for a few seconds while data is fetched, and then we can see the output:
Fetching AMEX symbols... Fetching NASDAQ symbols... Fetching NYSE symbols... ...
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