Welcome to the S+FinMetrics 3.0 Support Page!

Thanks for installing S+FinMetrics. Look here to find the latest news and information designed to make your S+FinMetrics experience more rewarding.

The latest version of S+FinMetrics is:
S+FinMetrics 3.0.2

Note: S+FinMetrics 3.0 requires S-PLUS 8.0.4 or later.

Information on this page relates to this version. You can check the version you have by typing version.finmetrics at the command line after loading the S+FinMetrics module.

Information on the previous release is also available.

Getting Started

Please read the Release Notes for S+FinMetrics 3.0.2. This includes information about improvements and new features in this release.

Before you start using S+FinMetrics, take a look at the function index at the front of the S+FinMetrics Reference Guide. This will give you an overview of the categories of function available in S+FinMetrics. Detailed information about individual functions can be found in the remainder of the guide, listed alphabetically by function name.

If you're new to S-PLUS as well as S+FinMetrics, read through Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 of Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS for a gentle introduction to programming financial analytics. Later chapters of the book give detailed background and examples for the analytic methods included in S+FinMetrics.

The book Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS is included with S+FinMetrics, and a PDF version is available on your S+FinMetrics CD-ROM and in the S+FinMetrics installation folder as the file manual.pdf. Note: this PDF file cannot be printed. Additional copies of the book may be purchased from Insightful.

Featured Links

Download the script files for the examples from the book Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS.

Eric Zivot maintains a web page with information related to the book Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS.

Contacts and Feedback

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