Quantopian(Python) vs Quantmod(R)

1, Sid-by-side comparison

2, Code snippet:

    from rpy2.robjects import r

    from pandas_datareader import data, wb

    import talib
    import numpy
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    IBM = r("getSymbols('IBM', src='google', from='2013-01-01')")

    f = data.DataReader(ticker,'google')

    f['SMA_50'] = talib.SMA(numpy.asarray(f['Close']), 50)

    f.plot(y= ['Close','SMA_20','SMA_50'], title='AAPL Close & Moving Averages')

    plt.show()

3. Module Installation

    conda install rpy2

    conda install -c quantopian ta-lib

    # more inteteresting modules

    conda install -c quantopian zipline

    conda install -c quantopian pyfolio

    conda install seaborn

    conda install quandl

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