[R-SIG-Finance] PortfolioAnalytics

[Pierre-Alexandr des Mazis]

Thank you very much G see 

I will dig into the subject once home and hopefully will be able to find a solution. 

regards

Pierre-Alexandre des Mazis
+ 447 779 171 499

On 21 Jun 2012, at 17:50, G See <gsee000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The alternative to the r-forge *website* is SVN.  If you're going to
> try to source files instead of building the package, you're on your
> own.
> 
> I guess you could browse through the repository here,
> https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/PortfolioAnalytics/?root=returnanalytics,
> and click the "download" link for files you're interested in.  For
> example, suppose you want the "charts.DE.R" file.  You can browse to
> it, and click the download link which will bring you here
> http://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/*checkout*/pkg/PortfolioAnalytics/R/charts.DE.R?root=returnanalytics
> 
> You can source that directly
> source("http://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/*checkout*/pkg/PortfolioAnalytics/R/charts.DE.R?root=returnanalytics")
> 
> (You may have to replace https with http in the link)
> 
> Gooood luck with that,
> Garrett
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Pierre-Alexandr des Mazis
> <p.desmazis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> G,
>> 
>> I was just wondering if there is any alternative solution to the r-forge website. I must admit I am not too sure about how to build a package. I will code my own script to do the job.
>> 
>> Thanks anyway
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> Pierre-Alexandre des Mazis
>> + 447 779 171 499
>> 
>> On 21 Jun 2012, at 15:13, G See <gsee000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I suggest that when you take this up on a Cygwin SVN list you show
>>> *exactly* what commands you entered, and *exactly* what errors you
>>> saw.
>>> 
>>> Or, you could just use TortoiseSVN.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Pierre-Alexandr des Mazis
>>> <p.desmazis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> I used SVN with Cygwin to checkout the project but host name could not be "reached".
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> 
>>>> Pierre-Alexandre des Mazis
>>>> + 447 779 171 499
>>>> 
>>>> On 21 Jun 2012, at 13:59, G See <gsee000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Precisely what do you mean by "the SVN is not working?"  When you read
>>>>> the thread that Julien provided, did you follow this link that I
>>>>> provided in that thread?
>>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11105131/cannot-install-r-forge-package-using-install-packages
>>>>> 
>>>>> R-Forge does not build packages for old versions of R.  You have to
>>>>> build it yourself.
>>>>> If it really is an SVN problem, then R-sig-finance is not the best place to ask.
>>>>> 
>>>>> HTH,
>>>>> Garrett
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Pierre-Alexandr des Mazis
>>>>> <p.desmazis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> The SVN is not working on my side.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Do you think I could find any Orr package zip for R 2.12?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am not very familiar with the building process .
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Pierre-Alexandre des Mazis
>>>>>> + 447 779 171 499
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 21 Jun 2012, at 12:04, julien cuisinier <j_cuisinier at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Please do some research before posting:
>>>>>>> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Where-to-obtain-version-of-PortfolioAnalytics-package-installable-on-R-2-15-td4633724.html
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Same comment would be valid for Juan's post yesterday asking about the RExcel, half a minute googling would have told him how to extract a tar.gz file, even on Windows
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> seems there have been some issues with the build as Garret mentioned, you might have to build it yourself. If you do please share with the list
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Rgds,
>>>>>>> Julien
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> From: p.desmazis at gmail.com
>>>>>>>> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:42:09 +0100
>>>>>>>> To: r-sig-finance at r-project.org
>>>>>>>> Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] PortfolioAnalytics
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I was looking for PortfolioAnalytics package zip but could not find it on the web.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Can you please help on that
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thank you
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