r-cran-fimport

ubuntu has a package for downloading free econometrics data: provides import function to access (free) data from Economagic, the US Federal Reserve, Forecasts.Org, Yahoo and other web sources. worth a look to see some sources that would be good to look at. the group of people who wrote this also have a link to a brief discussion of portfolio risk surfaces over the convex hull of achievable sets. interesting... i was thinking something along the same lines, and it's a little gratifying that working pros seem already to be doing something similar.