Timeline for R: How feasible is it to store -- and work with -- tick data in a database connected to R?
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| Feb 2, 2012 at 18:07 | comment | added | Dirk Eddelbuettel | The beancounter package has been available since the late 1990s to download price data, automatically store it in SQL backends with support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and ODBC, and also run P/L and risk (VaR) reports. Runs just fine as a cron job, and its easy to then chain R jobs onto it once the data is in SQL. Beancounter itself is a small Perl package and runs on any OS just fine. | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 13:39 | comment | added | Patrick | I'd be interested in seeing those R modules! | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 8:30 | history | answered | nxstock-trader | CC BY-SA 3.0 |