Welcome!

Welcome to the book site of Analyzing Financial and Economic Data with R, second edition. Here you will find the full content of the book for the first seven chapters, as well as all end-of-chapter exercises.

The book is available for purchase in Amazon as an ebook, paperback or hardcover. You can find more free content, including data files and exercise solutions in this link. The online version is also available for download as a pdf or ebook¹ file.

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License

This work is licensed by Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. All code in the book, including exercises, is shared with the MIT license. This means you can use it freely in your work but make sure to cite the original source. A suggested citation is:

Perlin, M. S. Analizing Financial and Economic Data with R. Second Edition, Porto Alegre: Marcelo S. Perlin (independent publication), 2021.

About the Author

I’m an associate professor at the post-graduate program of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), south of Brazil. I’m also the developer of several popular CRAN packages such as BatchGetSymbols. Further details about my academic work can be found in my personal site.

Books from the Author

• Poupando e Investindo em Renda Fixa: Written in portuguese, this book is about investing in fixed income instruments in Brazil, including bank products, fixed income funds and sovereign debt (Tesouro Direto).

• Análise de Dados Financeiro e Econômico com o R: Portuguese version of R book, available in the web.