Well, at least you seem well prepared. Kudos!
R.E. Boss > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Chat <[email protected]> Namens William Szuch > Verzonden: dinsdag 23 juli 2019 03:24 > Aan: [email protected] > Onderwerp: Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students > > Hi Devon > > Thanks for the comments. > I have a copy of the paper presented by Pepe in 2012. > > > Regards > Bill > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chat <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Devon > McCormick > Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2019 11:08 AM > To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students > > I believe Pépé has an advanced degree in actuarial science but I pretty sure > he remains opposed to teaching people in general about J :) > > I'm not sure how J's GUI compares to, say, Shiny for R but a colleague who > has done a little programming put together a pretty nice dashboard using > Shiny in not too long a time. > > I have used the J GUI once or twice and recently pulled up an old piece of > code written in it and it mostly worked; I had to make a tweak to hide the JQt > session and there are two other behaviors I'd like to correct but it's good > enough to ship. So, seems pretty simple to me but I've only done a simple > thing with it. > > However, J has no parallel when it comes to typing in small, powerful verbs > and using them with real data, if that's any attraction. I used J the other > day > because a colleague had just spent 10 minutes trying, and failing, to do > something in Excel I did in a minute in J. > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:09 PM chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I see J and R as being complementary, i.e. R for its statistical > > functions and J as an expressive application development language that > > can call R directly. > > > > Also I think J's wd interface is probably the simplest way a finance > > or actuarial user could develop a professional quality gui. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > -- > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > Quantitative Consultant > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
