R Programming – Nick Swan's Blog http://nickswan.net The harder I work, the luckier I get Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:06:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 Drawing a simple line graph with 2 lines : R Programming http://nickswan.net/drawing-a-simple-line-graph-with-2-lines-r-programming/ http://nickswan.net/drawing-a-simple-line-graph-with-2-lines-r-programming/#respond Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:05:09 +0000 http://nickswan.net/?p=100 Continue reading "Drawing a simple line graph with 2 lines : R Programming"]]> Problem:

In our last post we read in the historical share information about a company, in this post I want to plot the daily share volume amounts against a line indicating the average volume.

Solution:

> df <- read.csv(‘tesco.txt’)
> str(df)  #look at the structure of the dataframe

If you look at the data type of X.date you will see it is an int. We want to convert this to a proper datetime. I had a few issues with this, and it seems to be as it has been read in as an int when you try to convert it, it thinks it is a milliseconds value. I got around this by first converting the int to a char

> df$X.date = as.Date(as.character(df$X.date), “%Y%m%d”) #convert to date
> df$X.Avg <- mean(df$X.vol.) #create a new column and store the average volume
> plot(df$X.date,df$X.vol, type=”l”) #draw a line graph, l is for line
> lines(df$X.date,df$X.Avg, col=”red”)

tesco-graph

It would be nice to get the axis names sorted out, and the formatting of the numbers.

 

 

]]> http://nickswan.net/drawing-a-simple-line-graph-with-2-lines-r-programming/feed/ 0 Reading text files and getting a column’s average value : R Programming http://nickswan.net/reading-text-files-and-getting-a-columns-average-value-r-programming/ http://nickswan.net/reading-text-files-and-getting-a-columns-average-value-r-programming/#respond Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:17:40 +0000 http://nickswan.net/?p=99 Continue reading "Reading text files and getting a column’s average value : R Programming"]]> Problem:

Before doing anything interesting in R, we need to have some data to play with. I want to read in a list of End of Day prices for a company, and working out the average volume of that share traded.

This solution is going to require an account on www.eoddata.com to get access to the historical close prices of a share.

Solution:

I’ve downloaded the close prices for Tesco and placed them in /users/nick/rdata
This is the code to read in the text file and calculate the average volume of shares traded:

> setwd(‘/users/nick/rdata’)  # set the working directory
> df <- read.csv(‘tesco.txt’)
> mean(df$X.vol)
[1] 22283443

 

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Back in the day, when transitioning over from VB6 to VB.net, a really useful book that helped me along was Karl Moores Visual Basic.Net : The Tutorials (I even wrote an Amazon review for it – it really must have been good!!!)

My plan is to develop something like this as a set of blog posts, where each posts outlines a problem – with the solution after. I have no doubt that some of the solutions will be suboptimal – but that’s where I hope the interweb will come in handy and help me improve my knowledge.

Lets see how it goes. Here are the topics covered to far.

Reading in a text file and getting the average of a column

Drawing a simple line graph with 2 lines

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