Arbitrage.js takes advantage of R idioms in the world of Javascript giving you a risk-free gain in productivity. In particular, Arbitrage.js implements vectorization, recycling, and many base R functions in Javascript. For data scientists that need to write Javascript but don't have the time to learn all its idiosyncracies, arbitrage.js makes Javascript feel more like R.
Since Javascript doesn't support vectors out of the box, an external library must do the work. Arbitrage.js does just this, while also providing tools to work with sequences in general as well as sample spaces and probability distributions.
For those working with data and looking to perform data visualization, the concept of vectorization is extremely useful. The short definition of vectorization is that all scalars are actually vectors of length 1. Additionally, functions are vector-aware, so operations like addition natively perform element-wise addition while operations like max natively know how to operate on an array.
Like R, arbitrage.js treats everything as a vector. All scalar values are converted to vectors.
Tabular data is column-major. This differs from most JSON representations that are row-major.
Definition: seq(from, to, by=1)
A sequence is any regularly spaced set of numbers, such as [1,2,3,4,5].
To create this integer sequence, use seq(1,5).
A decreasing sequence is also possible using seq(5,1).
Suppose instead that you want a step size greater than 1. Then explicitly
set the step size with the by argument: seq(1,18, 3). The
by argument can also be used to specify non-integer step sizes,
such as seq(1,5, 0.2).
Note that if the step size does not yield a value coincident with the
to value, the number of elements is rounded up such that to
is within the bounds of the resulting array: seq(1,20, 3).
Definition: rep(x, times)
The rep function replicates the input argument a specified
number of times. For example to create an array of four 1s,
use rep(1,4). It is possible to pass an array as an argument,
in which case the result is a single array with all elements
concatenated: rep([1,2,3], 4).
Definition: select(x, idx)
Definition: which(x, fn)
Definition: add(x,y)
Definition: multiply(x,y)
Definition: sum(x)
Definition: cumsum(x)
Definition: prod(x)
Definition: cumprod(x)
Definition: inner_prod(x,y)
Definition: min(x)
Definition: max(x)
Definition: sample(x, size, prob=cumsum(rep(1/x,x)))
The sample function provides a way to make repeated draws from a sample space with replacement.
x = seq(1,20)
y = sample(x, 100)
You might then want to draw the results using d3.js.
Use the Makefile to run unit tests. This requires building the docker image.
$ make
$ make test
Alternatively, manual testing can be done in the browser by opening index.html.
Author: Brian Lee Yung Rowe Copyright: Zato Novo