Re: [R] Citation for stock price data from Quantmod

2024-12-30 Thread CALUM POLWART
This isn't my field. But I'd have expected a sentence along the lines of: Stock prices were obtained from Yahoo Stocks[1] using the Quantmod R statistics package[2]. 1. Yahoo Citation 2. Quantmod citation That is readable. A further sentence: All analytical code is available from a publicly acc

Re: [R] Citation for stock price data from Quantmod

2024-12-30 Thread Jeff Newmiller via R-help
The _point_ is to explain the story of the research so people can compare easily with other work. A story interrupted by tedious details is not very comprehensible. And I _did_ recommend providing a link to a code repository and using reproducible coding tools. On December 30, 2024 7:35:37 PM P

Re: [R] Citation for stock price data from Quantmod

2024-12-30 Thread Ebert,Timothy Aaron
Maybe I misunderstand, but if the results cannot be reproduced, what is the point? I did some secret stuff (after talking to my friend the witch doctor) and here are my results. Some analyses preclude exact reproduction, but then researchers should rerun the analysis several times to provide a r

Re: [R] Citation for stock price data from Quantmod

2024-12-30 Thread Jeff Newmiller via R-help
While asking if you should document what you did and give credit where due seems... unnecessary (of course you should) ... I believe we are beyond the point where a paper alone can allow me to reproduce most relevant published analyses. That is, including a link to a reproducible code repository

Re: [R] Citation for stock price data from Quantmod

2024-12-30 Thread Erin Hodgess
Great! Thank you. Erin Hodgess, PhD mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 5:02 PM Ebert,Timothy Aaron wrote: > Yes, you need to cite the source of data and the method for retrieval. You > also need to cite programs used in manipulating the data, cleaning the > data, and ana

Re: [R] Citation for stock price data from Quantmod

2024-12-30 Thread Ebert,Timothy Aaron
Yes, you need to cite the source of data and the method for retrieval. You also need to cite programs used in manipulating the data, cleaning the data, and analyzing the data. I should be able to read what you wrote, and using those methods recover the data independently from you and finish all