I’m pleased to announce that readxl 1.0.0 is available on CRAN. readxl makes it easy to bring tabular data out of Excel and into R, for modern .xlsx files and the legacy .xls format.

Warren Buffett — known as the “Oracle of Omaha” — is one of the most successful investors of all time. Wherever the winds of the market may blow, he always seems to find a way to deliver impressive returns for his investors and his company, Berkshire Hathaway.

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In a previous post, we imported oil data from Quandl and applied a simple model to it.

There are a few packages for sending email directly from R, but I work in a place where none of these work due to strict network settings. To at least partially circumvent this, here’s some code to produce a PowerShell script to send email(s) via Outlook.

“Since you have many attachments, you are only a little crazy. This is not crazy enough. You must become completely crazy before you can begin to understand.”

This article was released to members of the Cambridge Income Laboratory 30 days ago. For the inaugural edition of the ETRACS 2x Leveraged ETN Snapshot, please see here. Data are taken from the close of Mar. 9th, 2017.

Since its IPO on October 25, 2013, MRCC has outperformed BDCS by over 8% cumulative while yielding, on average, higher than the BDC universe. Outstanding balance sheet that will provide protection during a downturn, while benefiting from rising rates, as 97% of loans are floating.

Despite Trump’s first real test in the markets on last month’s failed push to pass new healthcare reform, U.S. stocks are up 6.03% on the year. World Stocks continue to outpace U.S.

Around September of 2016 I wrote two articles on using Python for accessing, visualizing, and evaluating trading strategies (see part 1 and part 2).