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

[Yohan Chalabi]

Joe W. Byers wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
> Dirk,  I appreciate the help and Happy New year
>
> Thanx Joe
>
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Hi Joe,

tcltk is loaded by fUtilities package in Rmetrics. I changed it and 
tcltk is now a suggested package and is no more required. So, there 
should be no problem to install future versions of Rmetrics on server 
without X11 or xvfb support.

regards,
Yohan