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

[Brian G. Peterson]

It should be very simple in linux.

from a shell:

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svn checkout svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/blotter/

# will create a 'blotter' directory below the directory
# you ran the command from.
#
#then

cd blotter/pkg/
R CMD INSTALL FinancialInstrument
R CMD INSTALL blotter
R CMD INSTALL quantstrat

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temporary build failures are a part of life on R-Forge, unfortunately. 
All the packages currently install fine form source.

To update later, go into the blotter or blotter/pkg directory and do

svn up

and then rerun the appropriate R CMD INSTALL command(s).

Regards,

Brian


On 11/13/2013 12:51 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 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)