Jan Vecer is co-organizing a conference here at Columbia on 4 Dec on computational finance with R. Registration information is at the link.
Computational Finance with R
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I guess it's a good time for a finance person to learn a free software package ...
Kieran: I'd be laughing too--if it weren't for the status of our life savings...
I use R now and again, but the chances of my employer flying me or anyone else to Manhattan for a conference on R for computational finance in the current environment are zero.
If I were in Manhattan I might drop by, if it were free.