[R] Installing RQuantLib on Win 7 64 Bit

[Santosh Srinivas]

Sorry, not very familar with the build process ... Can anyone with a  
working 64 bit binary for rquantlib, pls email me a copy ...

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On 26-Nov-2010, at 5:25 PM, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com>  
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>> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:22:54 -0600
>> To: santosh.srinivas at gmail.com
>> From: edd at debian.org
>> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Installing RQuantLib on Win 7 64 Bit
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>> On 26 November 2010 at 07:05, Santosh Srinivas wrote:
>> | Hello Group,
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>> | I am trying out RQuantLib on a 64bit Win 7 machine. But running  
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>> | installation errors
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>> The error message is about as clear as it can get:
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>> | install.packages("RQuantLib")
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>> | Warning in install.packages("RQuantLib") :
>> | argument 'lib' is missing: using
>> | 'C:\Users\Tester\Documents/R/win64-library/2.11'
>> | Warning: unable to access index for repository
>> | http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows64/contrib/2.11
>> | Warning message:
>> | In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>> | package ‘RQuantLib’ is not available
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>> There is your answer: there simply is no binary package.
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>> I need a win64 development box (which I currently do not have) to  
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>> QuantLib as a win64 library so that CRAN and R-Forge can turn the  
>> RQuantLib
>> source into a binary for you.
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> How bad are things getting? LOL. Seriously though, can anyone such  
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> or I download source, build, install, and contrib it back?
> Up until recently I had been building all the packages from source
> but one failed to install and now I just use install.package as was
> attempted here. I've been building on cygwin 1.7.
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