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Loading in your data set

This lab introduces you to portfolio theory. Let us get started by loading the returns_df data set into your workspace. This data set contains the returns on the Boeing and Microsoft stock from 1992-07-01 up to 2000-10-01.

You can find the data set at http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/course/compfin/lab8.RData.

This exercise is part of the course

Intro to Computational Finance with R

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Exercise instructions

  • Load the data with the help of the load function.
  • Use head and tail to explore the returns_df data set.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Load relevant packages
library("PerformanceAnalytics")
library("zoo")

# Load the data


# Explore the data set
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