[R-SIG-Mac] Desperate For R-Forge/Quantmod Assistance...

[MacQueen, Don]

First a couple of suggestions (people on the various R mailing lists tend
to be picky about things)

   - do not send HTML email, send only plain text

   - spell things right (there is no package named “quant mod”, and
misspelling means you are asking potential helpers to do more work than
necessary)

   - show in the email (copy/paste) exactly what you tried, and exactly
what the error messages were (people need that information to help). Not
everyone is willing to go look at something that was posted somewhere.

That said, when I tried
   install.packages(‘quantmod’)
at the R prompt, it worked for me, shown below.


> install.packages('quantmod')
also installing the dependencies 'Defaults', 'TTR'

trying URL 
'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/Defaults_1.1
-1.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 122763 bytes (119 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 119 Kb

trying URL 
'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/TTR_0.22-0.t
gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 282163 bytes (275 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 275 Kb

trying URL 
'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/quantmod_0.4
-0.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 447862 bytes (437 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 437 Kb



A standard installation of R should succeed.

I’ve never heard of a package named TTA, and it isn’t on CRAN. When a
package isn’t on CRAN you should tell the list where it’s from. Maybe you
meant TTR.

I’m running OSX 10.9.4, R 3.1.1, and it’s the “Mavericks” version of R
downloaded from CRAN. Don’t bother with older versions of R; virtually
certain to be a waste of time.

Possibly you need Xcode (from Apple), though not for quantmod itself, but
one can’t tell without seeing the error messages.

Can you install any packages at all, or is it just quantmod and a few
others you’re having trouble with?


-- 
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062




From:  Jason Eyerly <teamtraders3564 at gmail.com>
Date:  Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 11:27 AM
To:  "r-sig-mac at r-project.org" <r-sig-mac at r-project.org>
Subject:  [R-SIG-Mac] Desperate For R-Forge/Quantmod Assistance...


Hello Folks,
   I�m on a Macbook Air running OSX 10.9.2 and I�m trying to install some
libraries or packages (quant mod, TTA, etc.) to begin learning how to use
the software. Unfortunately, I�ve encountered errors every step along the
way. I�ve tried with R versions 3.0.3,
 3.1.0, and 3.1.1 all with no luck. I�ve had difficulty with everything
from install.packages to install_github and just can�t seem to figure it
out. The steps I�m trying to follow can be seen in the screenshots at the
link below. If anybody can help me work
 this out, or remote connect to see my issues, and help me get this thing
functional I�ll buy ya lunch! Thanks in advance!

https://www.bigmiketrading.com/matlab-r-project-python/32719-webinar-introd
uction-r-trading-w-ilya-kipnis-3.html

Best Regards,
    Jason E. 
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