In my business school Investments course, we used macros in Excel to pull Yahoo Finance data and simulate portfolios. No stranger to trading, but new to macros, I thought it was the coolest thing. But, as usual, anything Excel can do R can do better, as proven by my new favorite package: “tidyquant.”
Read MoreNot all of us have the privilege of quitting our consulting jobs and jetting off to Italy to play chef (taken from a true story), but that doesn’t mean we can’t roll out handmade pasta in our kitchens. And if that task seems too outside the realm of possibility, there’s a package in R called “datapasta” that’s calling all of our names.
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