[R-SIG-Mac] RQuantLib missing binaries

[Andreas Noack Jensen]

The package is in the Ubuntu repos and it seems to work. I have just installed it on my Ubuntu 10.04 in VirtualBox under MacOS 10.6 so it might be a solution.

Best
Andreas

Den 10/06/2010 kl. 09.43 skrev Kyle Matoba:

> Hello Professor Ripley,
> 
> I see.  Yes, I failed to compile it myself on my CentOS machine
> subsequent to sending this email also.  Very kind of you to get back
> to me on this point.  I will see if I can get access to a Windows
> machine and failing that, I will see about compiling QuantLib myself.
> If I am successful I will remit this to the list.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Kyle
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Kyle Matoba wrote:
>> 
>>> Just wondering if there was any plans to get this up and running again:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/RQuantLib-00install.html
>>> 
>>> If not, I will compile it myself.
>> 
>> You may not find it easy.  The issue is that RQuantLib depends on QuantLib,
>> in fact on a recent version of QuantLib (later than the one in the current
>> Fedora distribution, for example).  QuantLib is a large C++ suite of
>> programs, and I've failed to compile it on Linux in the past, and when I
>> have succeeded the package failed its own tests.
>> 
>>> I don't see anything in the changelog to indicate that this is
>>> deliberate.  Could whomever is compiling for macs look into this?
>> 
>> It is done by Simon Urbanek's autobuiilder.  I don't see anything which
>> indicates that it is not deliberate ....
>> 
>> If you look at the packages which are not being built by the Mac
>> autobuiilder you will see three main reasons why:
>> 
>> (a) the package fails its tests, e.g. lme4
>> (b) the package depends on other packages which are not available on the
>> build machine, usually from BioC or OmegaHat.
>> (c) the package depends on external software.
>> 
>> RQuantLib is in category (c), and very few such packages are being built
>> (not even Simon's own packages GDD and proj4).  If you look at the CRAN test
>> logs, the only platform on which RQuantLib is being installed is 32-bit
>> Windows (not even Debian on which it is developed) -- and that is because
>> the author supplied a pre-compiled Windows version of QuantLib.
>> 
>> I suspect you seriously underestimate the work which goes into providing R
>> binary packages.  I know (I used to do it on Windows and still contribute
>> there) just how thankless (literally and metaphorically) it is.
>> 
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>> 
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