[R-SIG-Finance] Re How to install latest version of quantmod?

Immanuel mane.desk at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 16 01:25:41 CEST 2010


Hey Jeff,

thanks for your fast answer.

> install.packages("quantmod", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
Warning in install.packages("quantmod", repos =
"http://R-Forge.R-project.org") :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using
'/home/flyingimmi/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.10'
trying URL 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/src/contrib/quantmod_0.3-14.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 118790 bytes (116 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 116 Kb

* installing *source* package ‘quantmod’ ...
** R
** demo
** preparing package for lazy loading
Loading required package: zoo
Creating a new generic function for "summary" in "quantmod"
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices ...
* DONE (quantmod)
---- cut---
help(quantmod)

       Package:   quantmod                             
       Type:      Package                              
       Version:   0.3-8                                
       Date:      2007-11-20                           
       Depends:   xts(>=0.0-15),Defaults               
       Suggests:  DBI,RMySQL,TTR,fSeries,its           
       LazyLoad:  yes                                  
       License:   GPL-3                                
       URL:       http://www.quantmod.com              
       URL:       http://quantmod.r-forge.r-project.org
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As far as I can tell is quantmod now installed in different places
and is only using the old version. :-/

any further hint's ?
regards mane



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