R/Business

R/Business is an ISC working group (www.r-consortium.org/projects/isc-working-groups) under the R Consortium. It covers applications of R in all areas of business

We are R users from different areas of business and financial services collaborating on events and advocacy of R.

The aim of the working group:

Promote the use of the R programming environment and the R ecosystem in business practice and business research

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Mission:

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1. A common collaboration platform
2. Organization and sponsorship of events
3. Development and maintenance of R packages
4. Education and promotion about the uses for the R ecosystem

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1. Development of a community-based collaboration platform
2. Organization and sponsorship of events
3. Research on relevant topics in the intersection of business/accounting and technology
4. Development of openly available courses/tutorials
5. Development and maintenance of R packages

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1. promoting uses of R and moving business from using Excel to R in their operations, reporting or other activities

2. developing R tools tailored for business applications across various subindustries, including insurance, finance, accounting, retail, etc.

Key areas

• Finance
• Accounting
• Financial services: insurance

Mapping business process to R packages/tutorials

Business process / Business area / R package/ link, R tutorial

• Investment time series analysis for portfolio management

Finance

Tseries: time series analysis and computational finance https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tseries/tseries.pdf

• Asset management

Finance

Tidyquant: combines xts and zoo, quantmod, TTR, and PerformanceAnalytics with the tidy data approach

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidyquant/vignettes/TQ00-introduction-to-tidyquant.html

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidyquant/index.html

• Financial disclosure and custom reporting

Accounting

Rmarkdown/Flexdashboard/Shiny