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2012 Jan 11
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Constructing a data.frame from csv files
....3,48.7,46.2,44.2,42.2,40.8)) attach(mydata) opt_return_volatilty = function(price, instru_name) { price_returns = matrix(data = NA, nrow = (length(price)-1), ncol = 1)     for (i in(1:(length(price)-1)))     {     price_returns[i] = log(price[i]/price[i+1])     } volatility = sd(price_returns) entity_returns = unique(instru_name) colnames(price_returns) = entity_returns write.csv(price_returns, file = paste(entity_returns, ".csv", sep = ""), row.names = FALSE) return(data.frame(list(volatility = volatility))) } entity_volatility <- ddply(.data=mydata, .variables = "instr...