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

[Jeff Ryan]

That is a tragically bad documentation lag ;-)

The main help file isn't automatically generated (noted, and I will
fix).  Try sessionInfo()

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
i386-apple-darwin10.0.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

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

other attached packages:
[1] quantmod_0.3-14 TTR_0.20-1      Defaults_1.1-1  xts_0.7-1
[5] zoo_1.6-2

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.10.1     lattice_0.17-26 tools_2.10.1
>


On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Immanuel <mane.desk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
> -------
>
> 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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