[R] "prob" package alternative

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Thu Nov 2 21:25:50 CET 2017 

> On Nov 2, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkantro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, that is exactly what I was doing two days ago.
> 
> Warning in install.packages :
>   installation of package ‘fAsianOptions_3010.79.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
> 
> Which is what a reading of the explanation for why "prob" was retired leads one to expect. Do you have some other suggestion about how to get it to work? I notice you're not using Windows which might have a relationship to why it is working for you.


I explained what you needed to do if you were on Windows. You do need to read the explanation more closely, identify the parts you don't understand (in all likelihood the point I made about needing the proper development tools for Windows) _and_ read:

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Installing-packages

If you have trouble understanding or getting success after thoroughly reading these directions, you need to explain what you have done (preserving the order of all operations) and post a complete transcript of all commands and complete error messages.



-- 
David.
> Otherwise, do you know of some other package that could be used instead of prob?
> 
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 3:44 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Nov 2, 2017, at 12:07 PM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkantro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes. That's the version I've been discussing that has non-zero exit status. That situation is why CRAN retired the prob package. It's possible you installed that library earlier in development and it's been "carried" along. It no longer installs, now.
> >
> > The problems with all of this seem to have started this month according to the conversations. However, no one has mentioned any solutions or workarounds except the one mentioned in passing (2.9).
> 
> Not true. Not even close to being true. I explained it all on the SO question page that you posted 2 days ago.
> 
> --
> 
> David.
> >
> > Is there some other package that does something similar to prob that can be used instead?
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 2:29 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Nov 2, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkantro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > sessionInfo()
> > R version 3.4.2 Patched (2017-10-04 r73465)
> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
> > Running under: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
> >
> > >
> >
> >
> > packageDescription("fAsianOptions")
> > Package: fAsianOptions
> > Version: 3010.79
> > Revision: 5522
> > Date: 2013-06-23
> > Title: EBM and Asian Option Valuation
> > Author: Diethelm Wuertz and many others, see the SOURCE file
> > Depends: R (>= 2.4.0), timeDate, timeSeries, fBasics, fOptions
> > Suggests: RUnit
> > Maintainer: Yohan Chalabi <yohan.chalabi at rmetrics.org>
> > Description: Environment for teaching "Financial Engineering and Computational Finance"
> > Note: Several parts are still preliminary and may be changed in the future. this
> >           typically includes function and argument names, as well as defaults for
> >           arguments and return values.
> > LazyData: yes
> > License: GPL (>= 2)
> > URL: http://www.rmetrics.org
> > Packaged: 2013-06-23 18:22:14 UTC; yohan
> > NeedsCompilation: yes
> > Repository: CRAN
> > Date/Publication: 2013-06-24 01:53:27
> > Built: R 3.4.2; x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0; 2017-11-01 22:45:02 UTC; unix
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > > >
> > > >       [[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.
> > > >
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> > >
> > > David Winsemius
> > > Alameda, CA, USA
> > >
> > > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'   -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
> > >
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> > David Winsemius
> > Alameda, CA, USA
> >
> > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'   -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
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> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
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> 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'   -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA

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

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