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Introduction to R for Finance

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Updated 12/2024

Learn essential data structures such as lists and data frames and apply that knowledge directly to financial examples.

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Course Description

In this finance-oriented introduction to R, you will learn essential data structures such as lists and data frames and have the chance to apply that knowledge to real-world financial examples. By the end of the course, you will be comfortable with the basics of manipulating your data to perform financial analysis in R.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course

1

The Basics

Welcome to Introduction to R for Finance!

Your first R script

Arithmetic in R (1)

Arithmetic in R (2)

Assignment and variables (1)

Assignment and variables (2)

Financial returns

Financial returns (1)

Financial returns (2)

Basic data types

Data type exploration

What's that data type?

2

Vectors and Matrices

What is a vector?

Vector names()

Visualize your vector

Vector manipulation

Weighted average (1)

Weighted average (2)

Weighted average (3)

Vector subsetting

Matrix - a 2D vector

Create a matrix!

Matrix <- bind vectors

Visualize your matrix

cor()relation

Matrix subsetting

3

Data Frames

What is a data frame?

Create your first data.frame()

What goes in a data frame?

Making head()s and tail()s of your data with some str()ucture

Naming your columns / rows

Data frame manipulation

Accessing and subsetting data frames (1)

Accessing and subsetting data frames (2)

Accessing and subsetting data frames (3)

Adding new columns

Present value

Present value of projected cash flows (1)

Present value of projected cash flows (2)

4

Factors

What is a factor?

Create a factor

Factor levels

Factor summary

Visualize your factor

Bucketing a numeric variable into a factor

Ordering and subsetting factors

Create an ordered factor

Subsetting a factor

5

Lists

What is a list?

Create a list

Named lists

Access elements in a list

Adding to a list

Removing from a list

A few list creating functions

Split-Apply-Combine

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Thashalak A.

3 months

Great course, Lore is a great instructor. Datacamp should keep her to be a main teacher.

Lily T.

8 months

Well-structured course and easy to follow for beginners to familiarize with the terminologies but also w/ the science behind them.

Alexander B.

10 months

Good content. Super teacher.

Weixin W.

about 1 year

I liked the course. It gave me a chance to learn R from a different angle, especially in understanding some R programming concept.

David E.

over 1 year

Lore is amazing and I have a mad crush on her. She explains things clearly without being pedantic and is always linking the skills being taught with the real-life applications.

"Great course, Lore is a great instructor. Datacamp should keep her to be a main teacher."

Thashalak A.

"Well-structured course and easy to follow for beginners to familiarize with the terminologies but also w/ the science behind them."

Lily T.

"Good content. Super teacher."

Alexander B.

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