[R-SIG-Finance] [R-sig-finance] fPortfolio not loading Rsymphony package

[Jonathan Ling]

I recently upgraded my version of R to 2.10.0 and installed the fPortfolio
package.

I noticed that once I did that, my codes ran into errors whenever I tried to
run CVaR portfolio optimisation. I then noticed that fPortfolio wasn't
loading the Rsymphony package... is anyone having the same problem?

I've tried loading the package manually but the commands for how fPortfolio
runs solveRsymphony through Rsymphony is probably different (i.e. the
constraints).

Here's the relevant codes:

## Initial Settings
library(fPortfolio)

Loading required package: MASS
Loading required package: quadprog
Loading required package: robustbase
Loading required package: timeDate
Loading required package: timeSeries
Loading required package: fBasics
Loading required package: fAssets
Loading required package: sn
Loading required package: mnormt
Package 'sn', 0.4-12 (2009-03-21). Type 'help(SN)' for summary information
Loading required package: fCopulae

Attaching package: 'fAssets'


        The following object(s) are masked from package:fCopulae :

         .mvstFit 

Loading required package: Rglpk
Loading required package: slam

Attaching package: 'slam'


        The following object(s) are masked from package:timeSeries :

         colMeans,
         colSums 


        The following object(s) are masked from package:base :

         colMeans,
         colSums,
         rowMeans,
         rowSums 

Using the GLPK callable library version 4.37

## Portfolio Settings
cvarspec <- portfolioSpec()
setType(cvarspec) <- "CVaR"
setAlpha(cvarspec) <- 0.05
setSolver(cvarspec) <- "solveRsymphony"

cvarport1 <- tangencyPortfolio(pdata,cvarspec)

Error in get(as.character(FUN), mode = "function", envir = envir) : 
  object 'solveRsymphony' of mode 'function' was not found



Also, sessionInfo():

R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252   
LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                      
[5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] fPortfolio_2100.78 Rglpk_0.3-1        slam_0.1-6        
fAssets_2100.78    fCopulae_2110.78   sn_0.4-12          mnormt_1.3-3      
fBasics_2100.78   
 [9] timeSeries_2100.84 timeDate_2100.86   robustbase_0.4-5  
quadprog_1.4-11    MASS_7.3-3        

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.0

Any help is greatly appreciated!
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