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

[Immanuel]

sessionInfo(), great I didn't know about that.
haha, so I actually had the latest version running all the time
and just didn't know it... thank for pointing this out! saved me
some time

Jeff Ryan wrote:
> That is a tragically bad documentation lag ;-)
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> The main help file isn't automatically generated (noted, and I will
> fix).  Try sessionInfo()
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>> sessionInfo()
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> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> i386-apple-darwin10.0.0
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> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
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> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
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> 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
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> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_2.10.1     lattice_0.17-26 tools_2.10.1
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> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Immanuel <mane.desk at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> Hey Jeff,
>>
>> thanks for your fast answer.
>>
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>>> 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
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>> * 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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