The FDIC regularly publishes a Failed Bank List and related statistics.  This post uses data in the original XLS from the FDIC web site which is formatted for human consumption to produce the charts below using R.  Note that 2010 data be...

After the recent foray into stock analysis using quantmod, I thought it worthwhile to mention that the library can be used to analyze a wide variety of investments, including precious metals.  It is also worthwhile to mention that there are other ...

Want to do some quick, in depth technical analysis of Apple stock price using R? Theres a package for that!The Quantmod package allows you to develop, testing, and deploy of statistically based trading models.  It provides the infrastructure for d...