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Thanks for the reply. I'm not a developer, just a mechanical engineer and having extreme difficulty in landing a job. Do you believe if I do the course on the

• pvaldes 12y ago
  Can't see the future, but probably yes. You probably want to take a look to the several financial statistics oriented packages available in R. This environment is... how to describe it? "often wild horse, sometimes donkey" Can be very (very!) defiant sometimes and have some well known issues with very big objects and small memory machines (is easily linkable with databases so this is a minor trouble)... but is also much rewarding. I think that any hour that you spend on R will be worth it, just don't be a masochist, buy or borrow a couple of good introductory books, read some manuals and internet links like the former and, when you have some practice and wish to improve, one of the best ways is to remember the repositories, install some packages of your interest with R> install.packages("packagename") And take a look to as many R-code of those as you can. Highly recommended. Try it.
• pvaldes 12y ago
  This link can give you a better picture of what type of things people are doing with R Using R to simulate the finances of public sector pension funds: http://www.r-bloggers.com/using-r-to-simulate-the-finances-of-public-sector-pension-funds/ http://www.r-bloggers.com/using-r-to-simulate-the-finances-o... Curiously a job position was announced (four monts ago, currently closed) at the end of the note in the same link. They were looking for an R expert.