Rmetrics Updates, Changes, and Enhancements
2005-04-18 Built 201.10059
This file reports the most recent updates, changes and enhancements made
to the packages included in the Rmetrics environment. The packages are:
fBasics, fCalendar, fSeries, fMultivar, fExtremes, fOptions, fPortfolio
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Rmetrics VERSION 201.10059
2005-04-05 fSseries: A3-LongMemoryModeling
Nine functions have been added to estimate the self-similarity
or Hurst exponent from a long-range dependent time series process
2005-04-03 fSseries: A3-LongMemoryModeling
Three functions have been add to simulate fractional Gaussian
noise.
2005-04-03 fSseries: A3-LongMemoryModeling
Five functions have been add to simulate fractional Brownian
motion.
2005-03-25 fBasics
The basics package a been splitted into two parts. All the time, date
and calendar functions have been moved into a new package named
fCalender.
2005-03-23 fPortfolio
The portfolio package has been started. Topics about multivariate
distributions, assets modelling, drawdown statistics, value-at-risk
modelling, Markowitz portfolio, two assets portfolio and data sets
have been added.
2005-03-21 fPortfolio: A1-MultivariateDistribution
This is a collection and description of functions to compute
multivariate densities and probabilities from skew normal and
skew Student-t distribution functions. Furthermore, multivariate
random daviates can be generated, and for multivariate data,
the parameters of the underlying distribution can be estimated
by the maximum log-likelihood estimation.
2005-03-20 fPortfolio: A2-AssetsModelling
This is a collection and description of functions which generate
multivariate artficial data sets of assets, which fit the parameters
to a multivariate normal, skew normal, or (skew) Student-t distribution
and which compute some benchmark statistics. In addition a function
is provided which allows for the selection and clustering of individual
assets from portfolios using hierarchical and k-means clustering
approaches.
2005-03-19 fPortfolio: A3-DrawdownStatistics
This is a collection and description of functions which compute
drawdown statistics. Included are density, distribution function,
and random generation for the maximum drawdown distribution. In
addition the expectation of drawdowns for Brownian motion can be
computed.
2005-03-18 fPortfolio: B1-VaRModelling
This is a collection and description of functions to compute
Value-at-Risk and related risk measures for a portfolio of assets.
In addition utility functions are available to compute the maximum
loss, to calculate the total return, and to plot a histogram of
the total return.
2005-03-17 fPortfolio: B2-MarkowitzPortfolio
This is a collection and description of functions which investigate
the efficient frontier for a Markowitz portfolio from a given return
series \code{x} in the mean-variance sense when short selling is
forbidden. Tangency, equal weigths, and Monte Carlo portfolios can
also be evaluated.
2005-03-14 fPortfolio: B3-TwoAssetsPortfolio
This is a collection and description of functions which investigate
the efficient frontier for a two assets portfolio from a given return
series \code{x} in the mean-variance and CVaR sense when short selling
is forbidden.
2005-03-12 fSeries: A1-ArmaModelling
Two new functions have been added. "armaToeplitz" allows to compute
the covariance matrix from autocovariances, and "armaFischer"
computes the Fischer information matrix for an ARMA time series
process.
2005-03-03 fMultivar: X1-MultivarData
Four new data sets have been added for the examples: 'CobbDouglas' and
'logCobbDouglas' data for the Cobb-Douglas productivity function as
used in exaple 7.10 in the book of D.N. Gujarati; 'Greene4Table131'
US yearly investment data as listed in the book of W. Greene, 'pr45'
sales and durable goods data as used in the book of R.S. Pyndick and
D.L. Rubinfeld.
2005-03-02 fMultivar: B1-MatrixAddon
Functions vec and vech have been added, that stack a matrix and the
lower triangle matrix.
2005-03-02 fBasics: HyperbolicDistribution
Functions for the computation of the generalized hyperbolic distribution
have been added: dgh, pgh, qgh, and rgh.
2005-02-28 fSeries: GarchDistributions
The three chapters C2-SkewNormalDistribution, C2-SkewNormalDistribution,
C2-SkewGedDistribution have been merged to one, named C2-GarchDistributions.
C5-GarchDistributionFits has thus been renamed to C5-GarchDistributionFits.
2005-01-22 fBasics: HyperbolicDistribution
Functions to compute probability, density, quantiles and to generate
random deviates in 2nd, 3rd and 4th parameterization for the hyperbolic
distribution have been added. Furthermore, functions have been
implemented to compute the hyperbolic mode in all four parameterizations.
2005-01-21 fBasics: StableDistribution
Functions to compute probability, density, quantiles and to generate
random deviates in "S1" and "S2" parameterizations for the stable
distribution have been added. Furthermore, afunction have been
implemented to compute the stable mode.
2004-12-12 fMultivar: MatrixAddon
A function to compute the exponential of a square matrix has been
added.
2004-11-17 fSeries: fMultivar
The package 'fSeries' has become too "fat", so I partitioned it into
twp parts: 'fSeries' and 'fMultivar'. The first part now holds functions
for the analysis of time series including ARMA Modelling, GARCH
Modelling and Hypothesis Testing, the second part holds now functions
for time series anlaysis with regression methods and functions
for the technical anlaysis including rolling analysis and benchmarks.
2004-11-16 fBasics: B4-ClassicalTests/B5-StylizedFacts
The script file "B4-ClassicalTests" has become too big, so we divided
them into three new parts named "B4-TestsClass", "B5-OneSampleTests",
and "B6-TwoSampleTests". The script file "B5-StylizedFacts" has been
renamed "B7-StylizedFacts". This information is given for those who
are interested in the source code and internal structure of the Rmetrics
packages.
2004-11-14 fBasics: ClassicalTests
We made some changes on the classical test functions. We have
introduced an S4 object of class "fHTEST" which describes the
classical tests, we have added the usual arguments "title" and
"description" to the argument list, and the output of the test
now gives more information than the typical printing of R's S3
object "htest".
2004-11-13 fBasics: SPlusCompatibility
These are R functions which we made available for SPlus, including
- General Functions: strsplit, match.fun, cov, forwardsolve, %x%,
data, NROW, NCOL, sd, nlm, optim, download.file.
- Tests: bartlett.test, fligner.test, kruskal.test.
These functions may be helpful for porting Rmetrics functions
to SPlus.
2004-11-11 fSeries: garchSim
The function "garchSim" was not working properly when not all model
parameters where explicitely specified in the argument list.
Missing parameters are now added correctly. [Note, that the "garch"
functions will be replaced soon by a new completely rewritten
package in the near future.]
2004-10-29 fExtremes: gpdFit
The residual statistics and the information about threshold value
and the number of exceedances have been added to the summary report.
Now, beside numeric vectors also univariate time series objects
are accepted as input arguments.
2004-10-29 fExtremes: MdaPlots
Now, beside numeric vectors also univariate time series objects
are accepted as input arguments.
2004-10-29 fExtremes: gevFit
The residual statistics has been added to the summary report.
Now, beside numeric vectors also univariate time series objects
are accepted as input arguments.
2004-10-29 fExtremes: gevglmFit
The residual statistics has been added to the summary report.
Now, beside numeric vectors also univariate time series objects
are accepted as input arguments.
2004-10-27 fExtremes: data/*
The "bmw", "danish" and "siemens" data are now 2 column data frame
objects with the first column as ISO-8601 character dates %Y-%m-%d
and the second column as numeric values. Formerly they were numeric
vectors with POSIX date attributes. Now these data records can
easily be transformed to 'timeSeries' objects and used in the same
way as under SPlus.
2004-10-16 fOptions: xmpfOptions
Bug removed. Internal function 'readf.fOptions00Index' corrected
as '.readf.fOptions00Index'. Now the fOptions examples should work.
2004-10-16 fOptions: BesselFunctions
Modified Bessel Functions of the first and second kind for integer
order together with their derivatives have been added. The functions
are entirely written in S.
2004-10-14 fOptions: EBMDistribution
Examples have been added to the help file. In addition a bug was
fixed: An internal used variable for the computation of the second
derivative of the reciprocal Gamma and Johnson Type I distribution
was missing.
+ many other smaller improvements and fixings ...
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Rmetrics VERSION 200.10058
2004-10-11 Rmetrics
The new version is now proofed to be conform with R Version 2.0 for
all its functions.
2004-10-03 fSeries: ArmaStatistics
The functions from the "ArmaStatisticts" collection have been merged
with the collection of "ArmaModelling" functions.
2004-10-01 Rmetrics:
The naming of the source and manual page files follows now a unique
naming convention.
2004-09-27 fSeries: demo/funSeries
Three new functions have been added to the "funSeries.R" file in the
demo directory: "tslag" - computes lagged or leading vector/matrix
of selected order(s), "pdl" - creates a regressor matrix for
polynomial distributed lags, and "disaggregate" - disaggregates
a vector or time series from low to high frequency.
2004-09-21 fBasics: BasicStatistics
All column and row statistics functions now allow for 'timeSeries'
objects and any other 'rectangular' objects which can be transformed
to a matrix as input.
2004-09-19 fSeries: RollingAnalysis
All rolling anslysis functions now allow for univariate 'timeSeries'
objects and any other objects which can be transformed to a vector
as input.
2004-09-19 fSeries: TseriesTests
All test functions now allow for univariate 'timeSeries' objects and
any other objects which can be transformed to a vector as input.
2004-09-19 fBasics: DistributionFits
All fitting functions now allow for univariate 'timeSeries' objects
and any other objects which can be transformed to a vector as input.
2004-09-19 fBasics: StylizedFacts
All stylized facts functions now allow for univariate 'timeSeries'
objects and any other objects which can be transformed to a vector
as input.
2004-09-19 fBasics: ClassicalTests
All test functions now allow for univariate 'timeSeries' objects and
any other objects which can be transformed to a vector as input.
2004-09-18 fOptions: EBMDistributions, GammaFunctions, HypergeometricFunctions
Three new Chapters have been introduced with functions to compute
distributions, the error, gamma and related functions, and the
confluent hypergeometric functions. These functions are useful in the
field of Exponential Brownian Motion and for the valuation of
Asian Options. The demo file "demo/funOptions.R" where the functions
where originally listed is now obsolete.
2004-09-14 fSeries: UnitrootDistribution
Two functions to compute the cumulative probability, punitroot,
and the quantiles, qunitroot, of the unit root test statistics
have been added. The functions are based on the Fortran routine
and the tables published by J.G. McKinnon 1988.
2004-09-10 fSeries: black.ts.csv
A data file which contains real monthly stock return data from January
1978 to December 1987 which are constructed from Berndt's (1991)
data set have been added.
2004-09-10 fSeries: LongMemoryModelling
Functions to simulate the long memory behaviour of an univariate
time series process have been added. Inclided are Beran's,
Durbin's, and Paxson's method to generate Fractional Gaussian
Noise.
2004-09-08 fSeries: klein.csv
A data file which contains data for Klein's (1950) simple econometric
model of the US economy has been added.
2004-09-08 fSeries: xmpZWChapter03
Demo files with examples from Chapter 3 of the book of Zivot and
Wang "Modeling Financial Time Series with Splus" have been added.
2004-09-03 fSeries: RollingAnalysis
Caused by a typing error the function 'rollMean' failed when the
argument 'trim' was set to FALSE. This has been corrected.
2004-09-03 fSeries: EquationsModelling
We have added functions to perform fits of systems of regression
equations. The underlying functions are those from the contributed
R-package 'systemfit' written by Jeff D. Hamann and Arne Henningsen.
'systemfit' offers functions for fitting linear structural equations
using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Weighted Least Squares (WLS),
Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR), Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS),
Weighted Two-Stage Least Squares (W2SLS) or Three-Stage Least
Squares (3SLS). The wrapper fullfills the naming conventions of
Rmetrics, returns a S4 objects, and allows for 'timeSeries' objects
as input. In addition a S-Plus like Finmetrics function 'SUR' is
made available.
2004-09-03 fSeries: xmpEqnsGreenfeld
An example to estimate Grunfeld's Model Data with OLS and SUR was
added. Different stock prices often move in the same direction at
a given point in time. The SUR technique may provide more efficient
estimates than OLS in this situation. The example was used by Zellner
in his classic. 1962 paper on seemingly unrelated regressions.
2004-09-03 fSeries: kmenta.csv
A data file which contains partly contrived data from Kmenta (1986) has
been added, constructed to illustrate estimation of a simultaneous
equation models.
2004-09-02 fBasics: HolidayCalendars
The function 'fjulian' got a new argument 'swap' making the old
one 'cc' obsolute. This change was inspired by the POSIX standard.
'swap' is an integer value which determines when dates without
the century specifications swap from the 19th to 20th century,
by default the value is 20, i.e. we swap 1920.
2004-09-02 fBasics: WebImport
A new function named 'fredImport' has been added which allows for
downloading daily financial market data from the St. Louis FED.
The import functions got a new argument 'sep' which allows to
specify the field separator in the data file, usually an Excel
*.csv file. The default is a semicolon.
2004-08-05 fSeries: DESCRIPTION
The package 'modreg' has been merged into 'stats', so we have
removed it from the dependency list in the description file.
This caused for Mac OSX operated system a failure.
2004-08-05 fSeries: surex1.ts.csv
A data file has been added which contains monthly sampled exchange
rate spot returns and forward premium data ranging from March 1976 to
June 1996 for the following currencies: USD vs. CAD, DEM, FFR, ITL,
JPY and GBP.
2004-07-07 fSeries: nelsonplosser.csv
The Nelson-Plosser data set containing the fourteen US economic time
series used by Nelson and Plosser in their seminal paper has been added.
2004-07-07 fSeries: xmpAparchModelling
The four demos "xmpAparchInnovations", "xmpAparchSimulation",
"xmpAparchEstimation", and "xmpAparchNYSERES" have been merged
to one new demo named "xmpAparchModelling" to reduce a little bit
the large number of example files.
2004-07-07 fSeries: xmpArmaModelling
The two demos "xmpArmaAnalysis", and "xmpArmaModelling", have been
merged to one new demo named "xmpArmaModelling" to reduce a little
bit the large number of example files.
2004-07-07 fBasics: xmpImportInternet
The three demos "xmpImportYahoo", "xmpImportEconomagics", and
"xmpImportForecasts" have been merged to one new demo named
"xmpImportInternet" to reduce a little bit the large number of
example files.
2004-07-07 fBasics: xmpXtsBusinessTime
The four demos "xmpXtsDailyWeeklyHists", "xmpXtsInterpolation",
"xmpXtsDeSeasonalization", and "xmpXtsDeVolatilization" have been
merged to one new demo named "xmpXtsBusinessTime" to reduce a
little bit the large number of example files.
+ many other smaller improvements and fixings ...
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Rmetrics VERSION 1091.10057
2004-07-04 Rmetrics
The new version is now proofed to be Debian license conform
for all its functions.
2004-07-04 FAQ
The FAQ file has been updated, now the FAQ's are providing more
information about Rmetrics.
2004-07-04 fBasics/R
In function .FirstLib we set a timezone if none found in
environment variables or options, as suggested by Dirk Eddelbuettel,
thanks Dirk.
2004-06-30 fExtremes/R
A new utility function named "gridVector" has been added which
creates all grid points from two vectors which span a rectangular
grid.
2004-06-29 fOptions/demo
A new example file named "funDensitiesEBM.R" has been added
which adds some distributions and related functions which are
useful in the theory of exponential Brownian Motion.
The functions compute densities and probabilities for the
log-Normal distribution, the Gamma distribution, the
Reciprocal-Gamma distribution, and the Johnson Type-I
distribution. Functions are made available for the compution
of moments including the Normal, the log-Normal, the
Reciprocal-Gamma, and the Asian-Option Density. In addition
a function is given to compute numerically first and second
derivatives of a given function.
2004-06-29 fOptions/demo
A new example file named "funSpecFunsEBM.R" has been added
with special mathematical functions which are used in the
theory of exponential Brownian Motion. The functions included
are: In Part I, the Error Function "erf", the Psi or Digamma
Function "Psi", the Incomplete Gamma Function "igamma", the
Gamma Function for complex arguments, and the Pochhammer Symbol
"Pochhammer". In Part II, the Confluent Hypergeometric Functions
of the 1st Kind and 2nd Kind "kummerM" and "kummerU", the
Whittaker Functions "whittakerM" and "whittakerW" and the
Hermite Polynomials "hermiteH"
2004-06-29 fOptions/demo
A new example file named "xmpSpecFunsEBM.R" has been added
which shows how to use Gamma Functions, Confluent Hypergeometric
and related functions under R.
2004-06-29 fSeries/R
New functions to fit the parameters by the maximum log-likelihood
method for the symmetric and skew Normal, Student-t with unit
variance, and generalized error distribution have been added.
2004-06-28 fBasics/demo
A new example file "xmpImportForecasts.R" has been added including
a function named "forecastsImport" to download monthly financial
market data from the "www.forecasts.org" web site.
2004-06-28 fBasics/R
A new function named "keystatsImport" has been added which
downloads key statistic and fundamental data for equities from
Yahoo's web site.
2004-06-25 fBasics/R
The function "as.timeSeries" got two additional arguments which
allow to pass dimension names and the timeDate format in POSIX
notation to the returned "timeSeries" object.
2004-06-25 fSeries/R
New functions "[dpqr]ged" and "[dpqr]sged" have been added which
compute density, distribution function, quantile function and
generate random variates for the symmetric and skew generalized
error distribution.
2004-06-25 fSeries/R
New functions "[dpqr]std" and "[dpqr]sstd" have been added which
compute density, distribution function, quantile function and
generate random variates for the symmetric and skew Student-t
distribution with unit variance.
2004-06-25 fSeries/R
New functions "[dpqr]snorm" have been added which compute density,
distribution function, quantile function and generate random
variates for the skew normal distribution.
2004-06-25 fSeries/demo
A new example file "xmpDistTESTskew.R" has been added with
integration tests for the skew normal, for the skew Student-t
with unit variance, and for the skew GED distribution.
2004-06-25 fSeries/R
New functions have been added which compute the Haeviside "H" and
related functions; just another sign function "Sign", the delta
function "delta", the boxcar function "boxcar" and the ramp
function "ramp".
2004-06-24 fOptions/demo
The 3D Plot functions for the generalized Black-Scholes option
prices and the sensitivities have been moved to the examples
located in the demo directory.
2004-06-14 fSeries/data
The data sets from the book "The Econometric Modelling of
Financial Time Series" (2nd Edition) written by Terence C.
Mills have been added to the data directory.
+ many other smaller improvements and fixings ...
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fBasics VERSION 1090.10056
2004-06-13 fbasics
Some minor internal updates have been made to Rmetrics, now
coming with version number 190.10056
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Rmetrics VERSION 1090.10055
2004-06-13 Rmetrics
The new version should be compiled out of the box on MS Windows
Linux, and Mac OSX Platforms. I tested it under Windows XP and
Debian Linux, and OSX. Binary packages for MS Windows and Source
packages can be found on www.rmetrics.org.
2004-06-11 fSeries/demo
A new demo named "xmpSeriesFilter.R" has been added which discusses
time series filters under R and which implements a R function for
the Hodrick-Prescott filter.
2004-06-11 fBasics/demo
The three demo files "xmpCor*.R", dealing with autocorrelations,
the Taylor effect and the long memory behaviour of the NYSE
Composite have been merged into one demo file.
2004-06-11 fBasics/demo
A new demo file named "xmpCalChron.R" has been added which shows
how to manage chronological objects from R's contributed "chron"
package. The topics include, generation of objects, representation
of objects, mathematical operations, and object transformations.
2004-06-11 fBasics/demo
A new demo file named "xmpCalPosix.R" has been added which shows
how to manage POSIXt objects from R's "base" package. The topics
include, generation of objects, representation of objects, mathematical
operations, and object transformations.
2004-06-09 fSeries/demo
A new demo file named "xmpChaosMaps.R" has been added which shows
how to write R functions which generate chaotic time series models.
The functions are: "henonSim" simulates data from Henon Map, "ikedaSim"
from the "Ikeda Map", "logisticSim" from Logistic Map, "lorentzSim"
from the Lorentz Map, and "roesslerSim, from the Roessler Map.
2004-06-08 fBasics/src
Thanks to James McCulloch the Builtin Fortran program named
"fBasics-symstb.f" which is called by the functions "dsymstb" and
"psymstb" is now under the GNU GPL license.
2004-06-08 fBasics/src
Thanks to Tierry Terneau the Builtin C program named "DATE-char_date.c"
which is called by the function "fjulian" is now under the GNU GPL
license.
2004-06-08 fBasics/R
The function "alignDailySeries" has been extended to handle
multivariate time series objects.
2004-06-08 fBasics/R
New test functions for testing normality have been added. This
includes as Builtin functions the functions from R's contributed
package "nortest" and a function for the D'Agostina normal test.
+ many other smaller improvements and fixings ...
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Rmetrics VERSION 1090.10054
2004-06-07 Rmetrics
The new version should be compiled out of the box both on MS
Windows and Linux Platforms. I tested it under Windows XP and
Debian Linux. Binary packages and Source packages can be found
on www.Rmetrics.org.
2004-06-07 fBasics/demo/xmpDistDFssd.R
Demo file added which demonstrates how to estimate probability
densities using smoothing spline ANOVA models with cubic spline,
linear spline, or thin-plate spline marginals for numerical
variables.
2004-06-07 fBasics/demo/xmpDistDFecfd.R
Demo File added which demonstrates how to compute or plot an
empirical cumulative distribution function.
2004-06-07 fSeries/data/dem2gbp.csv
Benchmark data file for GARCH modeling added.
2004-06-07 fSeries/demo/xmpRollingAnalysis.R
Demo file added which implements two functions computing a Simple
Moving Average "SMA" and an Exponential Moving Average "EWMA"
which can be used together with the book "Modelling Financial
Time Series with SPlus" written by E. Zivot and J. Wang.
2004-06-07 fSeries/deno/xmpRegOLS.R
Demo file added which implements a simple OLS function which can
be used together with the book "Modelling Financial Time Series
with SPlus" written by E. Zivot and J. Wang.
2004-06-07 fSeries/demo/xmpMatrixAddonNA.R
Demo file added which demonstates how to manage missing
values in a matrix object. Included are functions to remove,
to substitute, to interpolate and to impute missing values.
2004-06-07 fSeries/demo/xmpGarchOx.R
Demo file which demonstrates how to interface R with the
GarchOx package running under Ox. Note, Ox and GarchOx are
not part of this distribution.
2004-06-07 fSeries/demo/xmpChaosMaps.R
Demo file added which demonstrates how to generate some chaotic
time series models. These include the Henon map, the Ikeda Map,
the Logistic map, the Lorenz map and the Roessler Map.
2004-06-07 fExtremes/demo/xmpEDAlargenumPlot.R
Demo file added with two R functions "sllnPlot" and "lilPlot"
where the first verifies Kolmogorov's Strong Law of Large
Numbers and the second verifies Hartman-Wintner's Law of the
iterated logarithm.
2004-06-07 fExtremes/demo/xmpDISTmoments.R
Demo file added with two R functions "gevMoments" and
"gpdMoments" which compute true mean and variance for the
Generalized Extreme Value distribution and for the
Generalized Pareto distribution.
2004-06-07 fOptions/demo/xmpTREEtrinomialOption.R
Demo file added which shows how to write a function to compute
the call and put price of an European or American style option
using a trinomial tree approach.
+ many other smaller improvements and fixings ...
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Rmetrics VERSION 1090.10053
2004-06-04 fBasics/demo/xmpZW-Chapter-2.R
Demo files added with examples from Chapter 2 of the book
of Zivot and Wang "Modeling Financial Time Series with Splus".
2004-06-04 Rmetrics
Code parts from contributed packages are now integrated as
BUILTIN functions (invisible for the user). That makes
Rmetrics running out of the box on an R default installation
and allows for a better unit testing.
2004-06-03 Rmetrics
Rmetrics goes unit testing. I decided to use the RUnit package
for unit testing under Rmetrics.
2004-06-03 fBasics
Internal GNU Ical time/date concept improved, so that timeDate
operations become faster and now also run under Debian Linux.
2004-06-03 fExtremes/fOptions
are now running out of the box under Debian Linux.
2004-06-02 Rmetrics
All keywords in the help pages have been replaced with R's
standardized keywords from the KEYWORD.db Database.
2004-06-02 fSeries
New functions have been added supporting "Matrix Arithmetics
and Linear Algebra". The help page summarizes selected functions
available under R and addititional functions are documented
which have been added by Rmetrics.
2004-05-01 fBasics
The Fortran Code for the hyperbolic distribution "hyp" has been
withdrawn and is now replaced by pur R code. The Random number
Generator implements "rhyperb" from R's "HyperbolicDist" package
written by David Scott.
2004-05-29 fBasics
The "timeDate" and "timeSeries" classes have been added to
the Rmetrics "fBasics" package. Also available are examples
from Chapter 2 for the book "Modelling Financial Time Series
with SPlus" written E. Zivot and J. Wang.
2004-05-28 Rmetrics
MS Windows specific features have been removed from the packages.
This is a precondition to build the packages in the future also
under Linux and Mac OSX.
2004-05-19 Rmetrics
readline() function in examples replaced by xmp* functions which
allow for an optional interactive prompt, so that R CMD CHECK no
longer fails when the examples ask for a prompt.
2004-05-03 fBasics
Installer and Updater "menu" added for installing and updating
packages from the "Rmetrics" server, (MS Windows only).
2004-04-29 fBasics
webImport: The functions "economagicImport" and "yahooImport" got
a new argument named "try" for testing the Internet connection.
So the program doesn't fail any longer if the Internet is down.
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Rmetrics VERSION 1081
2004-04-22 fOptions
Two new functions added for valution of options by the binomial
tree method. These are: "JRBinomialTreeOption" and
"TIANBinomialTreeOption".
2004-04-21 fExtremes
All "*Fit" functions which the parameter estimation functions
from the "evir" and "ismev" packages have now a common print,
plot and summary S3 method which deliver their output in the
same form.
2004-03-21 fExtremes
A new function "interactivePlot" was added which allows for
plots in different ways by an argument named "which". If which
is a character string named "all" all plots are created, if
which is a logical vector of the length of the number of plots,
those plots are created which elements of this vector set "TRUE",
or if which a a character string named named "ask" the plots
interact with their user.
2004-02-14 fOptions
New functions have been added for the valuation of options
by Monte Carlo simulations. These are: "wienerPath",
"plainVanillaPayoff", "arithmeticAsianPayoff", and
"MonteCarloOption".
2004-01-29 fBasics
data: "*.csv" data files have now as delimiter a semicaolon
instead of a comma, thus we use R's default for *.csv files.
2004-01-29 fBasics
"print.coefmat" was deprecated in R's Version 1.8.1, thus we
have it replaced by the current function "printCoefmat".
2004-01-29 fBasics
"yahooImport" was updated due to format changes.
2004-01-29 fBasics
"skewness" now support as input data.frame and POSIX objects.
New methods
skewness.default(), skewness.data.frame(),
skewness.POSIXct() and skewness.POSIXlt()
were added.
2004-01-29 fBasics
"kurtosis" now support as input data.frame and POSIX objects.
New methods
kurtosis.default(), kurtosis.data.frame()
kurtosis.POSIXct() and kurtosis.POSIXlt()
were added.
2004-01-29 fSeries
"regFit" has now S4 print, plot, summary and predict methods.
All methods are now integrated in one function with argument
"method" for selection.
2004-01-29 fSeries
"lmTest" has now integrated all tests in one functions with
argument "method" for selection. The individual functions can
be used through the underlying "lmtest" package.
2004-01-29 fSeries
The collection "technicalAnalysis" was devided into two
collections, the first is still "technicalAnalysis", the
added one is named "benchmarkAnalysis".
2004-01-23 fBasics
"src/chardate.c" removed, now using R-package "date"