Hello, This mail is to inform you that I have just uploaded the zip-file RPlugIn. It contains two files. The first is the file RMathAFL.dll, the RMath plug-in for AB. The second is the Word-document R_Plug- in_Amibroker.doc, the accompanying manual. The manual briefly describes the functionality of the RMath plug-in for Amibroker which I make freely available to all AB-users. Its purpose is to allow you, the AB-user, to efficiently interact with R, the open-source and freeware statistical/ mathematical package based on the S-language (i.e. S-Plus). For more details on R , please visit the official website: http://www.r-project.org/. Here you will also find manuals and other contributed papers on R. Specifically, see this web-page: http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/.
It is impossible to discuss the full scale of the R-functionality that the plug-in makes available to the AB-user. It simply is massive, and even I have only explored a tiny bit of it. Instead, the manual will describe a small subjective selection of the possibilities available, with the aim to get you going. I have no pretension that my examples are of any use to you. What I do hope, however, is that they can get you going, and that this plug-in will enhance your trading/analysis skills, like it has mine. The plug-in has been kindly developed by a programmer-friend for which I am very grateful (and no, it is not Tomasz). There will be NO technical support for it, and (in all likelihood) no upgrades, if only because the functionality embedded is: - very extensive and flexible in terms of accessing R's core functionality (I would say almost unlimited, particularly if you write your own R-functions separately in R, which subsequently can then be called from AFL); - unlikely to be (negatively) impacted by changes in R itself; In the manual you will read about my motivations to have this plug-in developed, the main one being to thank, first and foremost, Tomasz Janeczko for developing AB into what it is has become: an industry- standard investment and trading platform. It has enabled me to transform my investment thinking into practical applications, making some money along the way. Extended thanks go to the AB-community in general. I am very grateful to the guidance, sample code, and other help (including support from Marcin) I have received over the past few years. PS
