abbreviate_name

A collection of functions and data sets that support teaching
a quantitative finance MS level course on Portfolio Construction and Risk
Analysis, and the writing of a textbook for such a course.  The package is
unique in providing several real-world data sets that may be used for problem
assignments and student projects.  The data sets include cross-sections of
stock data from the Center for Research on Security Prices, LLC (CRSP),
corresponding factor exposures data from S&P Global, and several SP500 data
sets.

Doug Martin

PCRA

Companion to Portfolio Construction and Risk Analysis

Alexios Galanos

Kirk Li

Jon Spinney

Thomas Philips

abbreviate_name function

<dl><dt>name</dt>
<dd>A character vector of long character strings.</dd>
<dt>max_word_length</dt>
<dd>Maximum word length before truncation.</dd>
<dt>collapse</dt>
<dd>A string used to join the abbreviation letters.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Abbreviate a vector of names — abbreviate_name

<dl>

<dt>name</dt>
<dd>A character vector of long character strings.</dd>


<dt>max_word_length</dt>
<dd>Maximum word length before truncation.</dd>


<dt>collapse</dt>
<dd>A string used to join the abbreviation letters.</dd>

</dl>

Abbreviate a vector of names

abbreviate_name: Abbreviate a vector of names

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