[R-SIG-Finance] 'Defaults' removed from CRAN? (2014-10-03)

Joshua Ulrich josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 04:14:34 CEST 2014


I just pushed an updated quantmod_0.4-2 to R-Forge.  Most of the
Defaults-related issues have been addressed, except for
getSymbols.MySQL and setTA/unsetTA.  Feedback would be much
appreciated.
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com> wrote:
> On 10/07/2014 03:26 PM, Daniel Cegiełka wrote:
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Defaults/index.html
>>
>> That's a pretty important package that is required by quantmod.
>
>
> Yes.
>
> Defaults makes use of unlockBindings to change loaded package namespaces.
> That's no longer allowed by CRAN.
>
> So, we'll need to modify getSymbols to not require it.
>
> The old chartSeries uses it too, but we'll be replacing that soon, so I'm
> not worried about that dependency.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian
>
>
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