CAS Open Source Software

Earlier this year, I created a GitHub repository to store material for the one-day introductory workshop I presented at the RPM in Washington, DC. I'm doing that again at the RPM in Dallas next year. I've changed the name of the repository to something a bit more generic (it had been called "RPM2014").

I'm also going through the process of moving from .Rnw to .Rmd. This will support more output formats. The one I'm partial to at the moment is using the "Slidy" format for HTML5. Slidy is great because you can zoom in and out. I learned quickly that attendees had trouble reading the source code I'd put on a slide because the font was too small.

Feel free to fork the repository, submit pull requests, etc. It's a bit of a shambles at the moment, but should be clean fairly soon. Note that one of the branches is for a GitHub pages website with instructions and downloads for workshop attendees.

Repo may be found here: https://github.com/PirateGrunt/IntroToRforActuaries

Next spring, I'll be doing a one-day workshop on R at the RPM in Dallas. To support that, I'm going to submit a package to CRAN called "IntroToRforActuaries", in the next week or so. This is primarily to be used to house a number of data sets which are useful for instruction. I've got NOAA hurricane data, most of the relevant figures from Werner and Modlin's ratemaking example from their appendix A (I'll probably toss in the others as well), the COTOR challenge data and a few loss triangles.

In addition, the package will have imports for other packages like ChainLadder and actuar that actuaries will find useful. This means students would only need to install the one package to get a number of others.

I'd also like to include a few basic vignettes with actuarial examples.

The project is located here: https://github.com/PirateGrunt/IntroToRforActuaries. There will also be a companion website using GitHub pages at http://pirategrunt.github.io/IntroToRforActuaries/.

As always, suggestions welcome.