[R-SIG-Finance] Where to obtain version of PortfolioAnalytics package installable on R 2.15

[G See]

I wish there were an R-Forge FAQ I could point to.

You need to use svn to checkout the code. (tortoise svn is popular for Windows)
    svn checkout svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/returnanalytics/

Navigate to the pkg directory of what you just checked out
    cd returnanalytics/pkg

Then build and install it.  Since you're on Windows, you'll need
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/
   R CMD INSTALL --build PortfolioAnalytics

As you noticed, that package has some problems that prevent it from
passing R CMD check, so don't hold your breath waiting for R-Forge to
build it.  (Also, don't expect the documentation to match the code)

If you're going to use code that is under development, you need to
learn to use svn and how to build packages from source.  If you have
trouble building from source, follow up on R-help.

HTH,
Garrett

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:02 PM, David-Michael Lincke
<dlincke at lincke.com> wrote:
> Could somebody please point me to where I can obtain a version of package PortfolioAnalytics that can be installed on R 2.15 (x86 32 bit) on Windows?
>
> The obvious approach fails:
>
>> install.packages("PortfolioAnalytics",repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")
> Warning message: package ‘PortfolioAnalytics’ is not available (for R version 2.15.0)
>
> A closer look on R-Forge shows that the package has not been building successfully for some time due to issues with compiling the documentation into pdf.
>
> Thanks,
> David
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