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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://msperlin.github.io/2017-01-22-First-post/"> R and Finance</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p> A little bit about me and this blog – </p>
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<p>Hello everyone! This is the first (ever) post for a new blog about<br>
Finance and R. My name is Marcelo Perlin and my day job is assistant<br>
professor of Finance in Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in the<br>
city of south of Brazil (Porto Alegre). I received my PhD in Finance<br>
from Reading University (ICMA Centre) in 2010 and I have a long<br>
experience in doing applied research in Finance. You can find more<br>
details about my work in my <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://sites.google.com/site/marceloperlin/">personal<br>
homepage</a>.</p>
<p>In the computational side, I fell in love with R in the moment I learned<br>
to use it. I had a long standing working relationship with Matlab and I<br>
was impressed in observing how much easier it was to manipulate and<br>
process data with R, once you understand its sintax. I translated all of<br>
my finance libraries from Matlab to R, realizing during the process that<br>
I was writing R code much faster and the result was much simpler to<br>
mantain than I would do in Matlab. After that, I was hooked. I’m<br>
currently writing a book about R and Finance that I hope to publish<br>
soon. The portuguese version should be up in amazon very soon. I’m planning to write the english version as soon as possible.</p>
<p>In this blog I will write about my CRAN packages and any other ideas<br>
about finance and R or research papers that I’m currently working on.</p>
<p>Oh, and when I’m not researching and teaching, I also love playing<br>
tennis. Fell free to drop me an email at<br>
<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://msperlin.github.io/2017-01-22-First-post/marceloperlin@gmail.com">marceloperlin@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Marcelo.</p>
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