[R-SIG-Finance] R-3.0.2 - FinancialInstrument/blotter/quantstrat

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   Are these install failures temporary, in the sense they'll be fixed
in a day or two, or is there a more long term problem here?

   I run R-3.0.2 in both Gentoo Linux & Windows 7. I'm unable to get
quantstrat this morning in either environment. In Linux I cannot get
FinancialInstrument or blotter either.

   I'm fine working in Windows short term if necessary. I'd like to
run Guy Yolin's examples as well as the luxor example that was
mentioned in the Humme+Peterson presentation from the 2013 conference.

   If there's a better way to go about this please let me know.
Getting these packages from R-Forge using the commands below seems to
be what is coming up most in Google. The Humme+Peterson paper also
mentioned building from source, ala

https://github.com/milktrader/blotter/wiki/Installation-Guide-for-Windows

but I've never done that before and sort of fear going down a rabbit
hole in terms of time spent. (But I'm willing to try it I guess...)

Thanks,
Mark

In Linux:

> install.packages("FinancialInstrument", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
Installing package into ‘/home/mark/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘FinancialInstrument’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)
> install.packages("blotter", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘blotter’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)
Installing package into ‘/home/mark/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘blotter’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)
> install.packages("quantstrat", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘quantstrat’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)
Installing package into ‘/home/mark/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘quantstrat’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)

In Windows 7:

> install.packages("quantstrat", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘quantstrat’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘quantstrat’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)