rlh2

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1. 1.▲
   by rlh2 7mo ago

   People also love to hate R but data.table is light years better than pandas in my view
2. 2.▲
   by rlh2 3y ago

   I did not, mostly because the parsers are custom to how I want things displayed. Here is a simplified example for Chase, though: BEGIN{ FS = ","; } { if(FNR > 1){ date = gensub(/([0-9]{2})\&#x
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   by rlh2 3y ago

   I tried this out and switched to ledger-cli instead. All of the features listed above are possible and the the flexibility is incredible. The hardest part is data entry. For accounts that provide API access I wrote curl/jq/awk par
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   by rlh2 4y ago

   The obsession with cpu speed almost always confuses me in these topics. Time it takes to program is way more important, and that’s where a terse language like R shines. The base/most common functions are almost always executing C anywa
5. 5.▲
   by rlh2 4y ago

   I have been using R for almost 20 years now. I work on a medium-sized quant team at a large asset manager and we run several $BN off R - we mostly trade equities and vanilla derivatives. Our models are primarily statistical/econometric