[R-SIG-Finance] PerformanceAnalytics version 0.9.6 released to CRAN

[Joe W. Byers]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 2 January 2008 at 23:23, Joe W. Byers wrote:
> | Great looking package!  I was installing it on my linux server using my 
> | VNC connection and a terminal window as su root, so I was only using the 
> | command windows, when I encountered an error with the install.  The 
> | package requires tclk which will not load unless the display is set 
>
> This is due to one of the Rmetrics packages, I have forgotten which, that is
> loading tcltk.
>
> | correctly on the linux terminal shell.  I had to physically log on to 
> | the linux machine to get it to install.  I am not sure if there is a 
> | workaround or if you can change the package to only load the tclk 
> | library as needed, not depend on it.  This is not a major issue for me 
>
> One way around is to modify the package's DESCRIPTION file and to set
> LazyLoad to 'no' --- you can do that with a Perl one-liner after expanding
> the tarball.  That's basically what I used to do for the Debian packages as
> they are 'assembled' in a chroot without $DISPLAY.
>
> The more elegant way around we use now is to use xvfb-run as suggested by
> Charles Plessy: it invokes a virtual X11 session using xvfb. One Debian, this
> means also installing the "xvfb, xbase-clients, xfonts-base" packages and to
> then call
>
>      xvfb-run R CMD INSTALL -l $(InstalLDir) --clean $(Target)
>
> instead of just 
>
>     R CMD INSTALL -l $(InstalLDir) --clean $(Target)
>
> You should be able to work that out with your sysadmin if need be. 
>   
This is on my server at my home, so I am the sysadmin :)
> Hth, Dirk
>
> | but being able to remotely connect and run a superuser shell is 
> | convenient.  This will impact anyone that has a cron job that 
> | automatically updates the R packages on machines.
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Dirk,  I appreciate the help and Happy New year

Thanx Joe