PerformanceAnalytics (version 0.9.5)

chart.CumReturns: Cumulates and graphs a set of periodic returns

Description

Chart that cumulates the periodic returns given and draws a line graph of the results as a "wealth index".

Usage

chart.CumReturns(R, wealth.index = FALSE, legend.loc = NULL, colorset =(1:12), begin = c("first","axis"), ...)

Arguments

R

a vector, matrix, data frame, timeSeries or zoo object of asset returns

wealth.index

if wealth.index is TRUE, shows the "value of $1", starting the cumulation of returns at 1 rather than zero

legend.loc

places a legend into one of nine locations on the chart: bottomright, bottom, bottomleft, left, topleft, top, topright, right, or center.

colorset

color palette to use, set by default to rational choices

begin

Align shorter series to:

• first - prior value of the first column given for the reference or longer series or,
• axis - the initial value (1 or zero) of the axis.

...

any other passthru parameters

Value

• A timeseries line chart of the cumulative return series.

Details

Cumulates the return series and displays either as a wealth index or as cumulative returns.

See Also

chart.TimeSeries plot

Examples

data(edhec)
chart.CumReturns(edhec[,"Funds.of.Funds"],main="Cumulative Returns")
chart.CumReturns(edhec[,"Funds.of.Funds"],wealth.index=TRUE, main="Value of $1")