
Thanks for your reply. 

On
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/

Frozen
Rtools216.exe   R >2.15.1 to R 2.16.x  No 
Frozen means "no available" ? 

So, PortfolioAnalytics cannot be used on Linux or Win until Mar. 2012 ? 

Are there substitutes ? 

Any help will be appreciated. 

> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 16:35:44 -0800
> Subject: Re: [R] error of installing/building an R package (PortfolioAnalytics) on Win 7
> From: djmuser@gmail.com
> To: dtustudy68@hotmail.com
> 
> (1) If you have R 2.15.2 on your computer, you need Rtools215, not
> 216; the latter is for the upcoming 2.16 release that is in beta right
> now and is not expected to be released before late March 2013.
> 
> (2) If you go to the project page on R-Forge,
> https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=579
> you'll discover that PortfolioAnalytics failed to build there. Until
> it does, you won't be able to install the development version of the
> package in your R library. When it does, you would use something like
> 
> install.packages("PortfolioAnalytics", repos =
> "r-forge.r-project.org", type = "source")
> 
> at the command line to install it. This is necessary on Linux, but
> depending on the package, there may be available binaries for Windows
> and Mac, in which case you can install those instead of having to
> build it from source and you can remove the last argument above from
> the install.packages() call.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Jack Bryan <dtustudy68@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to install a package (PortfolioAnalytics) of R 2.15.2 on Win 7.
> >
> > I have tried the following instructions on :
> >
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11105131/cannot-install-r-forge-package-using-install-packages
> >
> > I used svn checkout svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/returnanalytics/  to
> > get the package and then copy it to my Win 7.
> >
> >
> > Then, on Win 7 I run:
> >
> >> install.packages('PortfolioAnalytics', type='source',  repos='<The location of the package on Win 7>')
> >
> > I got
> >
> > Warning: unable to access index for repository C:/myPath/library/returnanalytics/pkg/PerformanceAnalytics/src/contrib
> > Warning: package ‘PortfolioAnalytics’ is not available (for R version 2.15.2)
> >
> >
> > I also tried
> >
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4739837/how-do-i-install-an-r-package-from-the-source-tarball-on-windows
> >
> > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Windows-packages    (6.3.1 Windows)
> >
> > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#The-Windows-toolset  (Appendix D The Windows toolset)
> >
> > I have installed RTools216 on Win 7. But, it does not say how to use it to build a R package on Win 7.
> > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/Rtools216.exe
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
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