Hi all, It looks like R lacks of a good time series interactive viewer... I am thinking of connecting R to some (existing) backtest platforms so that time series can be visualized in those platforms... I am thinking of Multi-charts or Trade-station... etc. What's the best way to do this? Any thoughts? Please shed some lights! Thanks a lot!
I don't think TradeStation et al. can plot arbitrary time series per se. In any case, there would be no direct connection between R and the platform. You would have to export the time series data to a file and then import it into the platform....but then, what is the point of using R? You can just code the plots/time series on the platform directly e.g. as an indicator on a base OHLC financial time series (stock, commodity, fx pair etc.) What's wrong with Quantmod for R?: http://www.quantmod.com/examples/charting/