Response: Candlestick charts are interactive charts, primarily used in stock price movements, security or derivative analysis in a real-time or near real-time scenario to describe the price movement. Yes, it is possible to create such charts in R using libraries such as “plotly” or “dygraphs” and leveraging their function features. For example, we can take a sample dataset in R from xts which has sample data matrix for simulated 180 observations on 4 variables. Below is a sample output candlestick chart for the above dataset: