quantmod

Quantitative Financial Modelling Framework

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About

quantmod is an R
package that provides a framework for quantitative financial modeling and
trading. It provides a rapid prototyping environment that makes modeling easier
by removing the repetitive workflow issues surrounding data management and
visualization.

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Installation

The current release is available on CRAN,
which you can install via:

install.packages("quantmod")

To install the development version, you need to clone the repository and build
from source, or run one of:

# lightweight
remotes::install_github("joshuaulrich/quantmod")
# or
devtools::install_github("joshuaulrich/quantmod")

You may need tools to compile C, C++, or Fortran code. See the relevant
appendix in the R Installation and Administration manual
for your operating system:

Getting Started

It is possible to import data from a variety of sources with one quantmod
function: getSymbols(). For example:

> getSymbols("AAPL", src = "yahoo")    # from yahoo finance
[1] "AAPL"
> getSymbols("DEXJPUS", src = "FRED")  # FX rates from FRED
[1] "DEXJPUS"

Once you’ve imported the data, you can use chartSeries() to visualize it and
even add technical indicators from the TTR
package:

> getSymbols("AAPL")
[1] "AAPL"
> chartSeries(AAPL)
> addMACD()
> addBBands()
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Contributing

Please see the contributing guide.

See Also

  • TTR: functions for technical trading
    rules
  • xts: eXtensible Time Series based
    on zoo

Author

Jeffrey Ryan, Joshua Ulrich