[R-sig-finance] Re: R-sig-finance Digest, Vol 1, Issue 7

[Phil]

Diethelm,

I used 1).  First I had to upgrade R v1.9.0 and then get a copy of the g77
compiler.  After that it worked fine.  I'm looking forward to trying it out.

Phil

> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 08:14:33PM -0400, Phil wrote:
> > Diethelm,
> >
> > OK, so I'm knew to R and Linux.  How do I build this?  My guess is that
I
> > have to download the R source (instead of just the binaries) and rebuild
R.
> > Is this correct?  If not, some guidance would be helpful.
>
> No, it is much easier due to the modular package system design.  For any
> given CRAN package from
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/
>
> you have two easy choices. Let's take its as a simple example
>
> 1)  Download the latest tar.gz, i.e. its_1.0.3.tar.gz
>     Simply install it by saying
>     $ R CMD INSTALL its_1.0.3.tar.gz
>     which will do whatever is needed.  Note that for packages with source
>     code in C, C++, Fortan, you do need to have the required compilers,
>     headers, ... as well as any external libraries. You probably also need
>     to do this as root due to write permissions.
>
> 2)  Do it from inside R (also preferaby as root)
>
>         > install.packages("its")
>
> If you are runninging Debian, you get a third choice:
>
>         $ apt-get install r-cran-its
>
> Now, back to Rmetrics. Given that these are not yet on CRAN, you are
> probably best served by 1) and a download of the sources followed by 'R
CMD
> INSTALL ...'.
>
> Hope this helps, and good luck,
>
> Dirk
>
>
> > Phil Morenz
> >
> > > *June 13, 2004
> > > Rmetrics - new Built 190.10055
> > >
> > > Rmetrics is an environment and a collection of functions
> > > for teaching financial engineering and computational finance
> > >
> > > *The new built should now run out of the box under Windows, Linux, and
> > > Mac OSX. In addition new functionality has been added, and some fixes
> > > has been done. New functions and example files have been added. Please
> > > inspect the FAQ and CHANGES <CHANGES.html> files. Goto:
www.rmetrics.org .
> > >
> > > Suggestions are welcome!
> > >
> > > Diethelm Wuertz
> > > www.rmetrics.org
> > >
> >
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