[R-SIG-Finance] Error in "blotter-package" example

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> getPrice doesn't exist in quantmod until 0.3-14.  Please update
> quantmod manually.  I'll change the blotter DESCRIPTION file to
> reflect the dependency.

blotter already depends on quantmod_0.3-14.  R-forge only creates
binary builds for the most recent major version of R (2.12.x).  Since
you're using 2.11.1, I'm guessing you're building from source.
Apparently the dependency isn't being picked up for some reason.

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> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Worik <worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I installed blotter
>>
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>> install.packages("blotter",repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
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>> R version 2.11.1
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>> And when I ran the example from blotter-package I got the error \:
>>
>>> updatePortf(Portfolio="p",Dates='2007-01')
>> Error in .updatePosPL(Portfolio = pname, Symbol = as.character(symbol),  :
>>  could not find function "getPrice"
>>
>> I thought this might be useful.   Is this the correct place to send such
>> emails or should I send them direct to Brian or somewhere else?
>>
>> cheers
>> Worik
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