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

[David Winsemius]

Well there is bit of a problem with this: "... Macbook Air running OSX 10.9.2 ".

There is no good reason to be using a version of R that is that old. But if you can concoct a less-than-good reason to do so, then you need to a) have the necessary Xcode for installing from source (which might not be the same as the current versions of Xcode) and might depend on the unstated version of MacOSX), b) identify (using the dates of packages) the version of the source code for 'quantmod' and all of its dependencies, and then c) install those from source all the versions of the relevant packages.

-- 
David.


On Sep 8, 2014, at 10:06 AM, MacQueen, Don wrote:

> 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. 
>        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> 
> 
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA