[R] "prob" package alternative

[David Winsemius]

> On Nov 1, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkantro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The prob package has been archived because it depends upon some other
> packages which have issues.
> 
> However, such projects as Introduction to Probability and Statistics in R
> depend upon it for learning. There are a few other resources that also use
> it.
> 
> Does anyone know of any workarounds?
> 
> Someone at stack exchange mentioned using R 2.9.

I'm not sure I would trust that person. They seem a bit uninformed.

> However, that broke my
> RStudio (WSOD) and the dependent packages still wouldn't install, anyway.

The latest version of pkg-prob at the Archive directory of CRAN indicates that it was last updated within this year. The DESCRIPTION file indicates that it does not need compilation, but:

Depends: combinat, fAsianOptions

So there should be code in text files in its ../R directory which can be sourced from that directory.

~myuser_name$ ls /Users/../Downloads/prob/R 
characteristicfunctions.r	simulation.r			utils-spaces.r
genData.R			spaces-examples.r		utils-subsets.r
misc.r				spaces-prob.r
prob.r				utils-events.r


Or you can install from source after downloading:

install.packages("~/Downloads/prob", repo=NULL,type="source")

# Success


>  library(prob)   # So does require having several other packages
Loading required package: combinat

Attaching package: ‘combinat’

The following object is masked from ‘package:utils’:

    combn

Loading required package: fAsianOptions
Loading required package: timeDate

Attaching package: ‘timeDate’

The following object is masked from ‘package:cairoDevice’:

    Cairo

The following objects are masked from ‘package:PerformanceAnalytics’:

    kurtosis, skewness

Loading required package: timeSeries

Attaching package: ‘timeSeries’

The following object is masked from ‘package:zoo’:

    time<-

Loading required package: fBasics


Rmetrics Package fBasics
Analysing Markets and calculating Basic Statistics
Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Rmetrics Association Zurich
Educational Software for Financial Engineering and Computational Science
Rmetrics is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
https://www.rmetrics.org --- Mail to: info at rmetrics.org
Loading required package: fOptions


Rmetrics Package fOptions
Pricing and Evaluating Basic Options
Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Rmetrics Association Zurich
Educational Software for Financial Engineering and Computational Science
Rmetrics is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
https://www.rmetrics.org --- Mail to: info at rmetrics.org

Attaching package: ‘prob’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:dplyr’:

    intersect, setdiff, union

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

    intersect, setdiff, union

> 
> 
> 
> Tiby
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

A specific suggestion would be that you read the listinfo and the Posting Guide and learn to post in plain text.
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA

'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'   -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law