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Black-Scholes Option Pricing in R

The Black-Scholes or Black-Scholes-Merton model is a financial mathematical equation for pricing options contracts and other derivatives. Fischer Black and Myron Scholes published the formula in their 1973 paper "The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities"....

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How to Remove Legend in ggplot2

You can remove a legend from a plot using the syntax legend.position="none" for the plot theme. For example, library(ggplot2) ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x = mpg, y = disp, color = vs)) + geom_point() + theme(legend.position="none") This tutorial will go through how to...

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How to Center Plot Title in ggplot2 with R

The easiest way to center a title using ggplot2 is to modify the plot.title component of the theme using element_text(hjust=0.5). For example, library(ggplot2) ggplot(data=mtcars, aes(x=mpg, y=wt)) + geom_point() + ggtitle("Automobile Weight vs Miles per Gallon") +...

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How to Transpose a Data Frame in R

The easiest way to transpose a data frame is to use the transpose() function from the data.table library. For example, library(data.table) # get data data("mtcars") # transpose t_mtcars <- transpose(mtcars) # get row and colnames in order colnames(t_mtcars) <-...

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