[BlindRUG] Computational Finance with R

[Niels Luithardt]

Hello Jonathan and Robin,

@Robin:

I'm interestet in your scripts. can you send me your papers and scripts please?

I have no experience with Mathlab, R and co. First I must gain
experience with the programms, that is the reason why I'm get a member
of this Mailinglist.

What about Octave? Is octave more accesabil for visually impaired or
blind people?

I Work with NVDA - Operating System Win 7 64 bit.

My first Problem:

I startet the R GUi, i ttype something like 3+1 and NVDa dosen't read
the output.

Have someone a solution for my problem?

Scilab is not accesabil with NVDa, I have tested it.

regards

Niels 2016-04-21 10:07 GMT+02:00, Williams, Robin via BlindRUG
<blindrug at nfbnet.org>:
> Hi Niels,
>
> I agree with Jonathan. I did have some success using Matlab when studying
> numerical methods, in fact I used it for my Masters project, although it's
> accessibility doesn't match that of R. You can run Matlab from the command
> line, and write script files as in R. I believe I have some old notes
> somewhere from my undergraduate degree that I could share if you like.
>
> As Jonathan says, there are plenty of R packages, although I believe that
> might not be the optimal way to go for differential calculus, numerical
> methods etc, although perhaps this depends on how much computation you'll be
> doing.
>
> Hope this helps a little!
> Robin
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Jonathan via BlindRUG
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> Cc: Godfrey, Jonathan
> Subject: Re: [BlindRUG] Computational Finance with R
>
> Hi Niels,
>
> No one else has answered your question and I'm not going to offer much hope
> either really.
>
> There are a lot of add-on packages available that deal with computational
> finance but I suspect it will be quite difficult to find the ones that deal
> with everything you mentioned.
>
> You may find that another tool or set of tools may be needed to do all the
> tasks you want for this course. It might be easier to handle differential
> calculus using more mathematical software for example.
>
> No matter which software you choose to use, I would highly recommend
> discussing your needs with the course teaching staff before you spend too
> much energy on the wrong options.
>
> I don't know the scilab software you mentioned. Have you investigated its
> accessibility thoroughly? The first question I would ask is whether it can
> be run from the command line.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindRUG [mailto:blindrug-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Niels
> Luithardt via BlindRUG
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2016 7:17 p.m.
> To: blindrug at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Niels Luithardt
> Subject: [BlindRUG] Computational Finance with R
>
> Hi,
>
> I am Niels Luithardt, an i study math and physics at Kiel University
> (Germany).
>
> This Semester i attend a Course in Computational Finance.
>
> "This course is an introduction to numerical methods for problems in
> mathematical finance like valuation of European and American options,
> hedging and model calibration. The presented tools include binomial trees,
> Itō calculus, integral transform approaches, Monte-Carlo methods and
> numerical methods for the solution of partial differential equations."
>
> My Prof will uses  the software package Scilab, but i will try to use R.
>
>
> Exists experience with Computational Finance?
>
> what Package I need?
>
> Thanks
>
> Niels
>
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