[R] "prob" package alternative

[Tiby Kantrowitz]

The issue is fAsianOptions. Is there a version that works with the latest
version of R? If not, which version of it works with which version of R and
where can it be found? I tried several at the archive already.

Alternatively, is there another package that behaves similarly to prob?



On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 6:17 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> > 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 The prob package has been archived because it depends upon some other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
> >
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> David Winsemius
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