[R-SIG-Mac] Unable to install quantstrat from sources on MAC

[Leo Shpiz]

I did follow instructions for getting MAC tools and installed fortran.  I then tried installing quantstrat which failed but I tried from sources.  The installer was unable to find the gfortran which does exist on my system, but a different version.

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/ <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/>

Used above to load 
gfortran-4.2.3.pkg (OS X 10.5+, signed, 64-bit driver)

The fortran was installed in usr2 and I moved local to the usr directory and
then executed

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

In RStudio I did the install and said yes from sources

install.packages("quantstrat",
repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org <http://r-forge.r-project.org/>")
also installing the dependencies ‘PerformanceAnalytics’, ‘blotter’

Warning in install.packages :
 URL 'http://download.r-forge.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3/PA <http://download.r-forge.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3/PA>
CKAGES.gz': status was '404 Not Found'
Warning in install.packages :
 URL 'http://download.r-forge.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3/PA <http://download.r-forge.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3/PA>
CKAGES': status was '404 Not Found'
Warning in install.packages :
 unable to access index for repository
http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3: <http://r-forge.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3:>
 cannot download all files
Packages which are only available in source form, and may need compilation of
 C/C++/Fortran: ‘PerformanceAnalytics’ ‘blotter’ ‘quantstrat’
Do you want to attempt to install these from sources?
y/n: y
installing the source packages ‘PerformanceAnalytics’, ‘blotter’,
‘quantstrat’

trying URL 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/src/contrib/PerformanceAnalytics_1.4.40 <http://r-forge.r-project.org/src/contrib/PerformanceAnalytics_1.4.40>
00.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2119678 bytes (2.0 MB)
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downloaded 2.0 MB

trying URL 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/src/contrib/blotter_0.9.1741.tar.gz <http://r-forge.r-project.org/src/contrib/blotter_0.9.1741.tar.gz>'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 74117 bytes (72 KB)
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downloaded 72 KB

trying URL 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/src/contrib/quantstrat_0.9.1739.tar.gz <http://r-forge.r-project.org/src/contrib/quantstrat_0.9.1739.tar.gz>'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 799472 bytes (780 KB)
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downloaded 780 KB

* installing *source* package ‘PerformanceAnalytics’ ...
** libs
gfortran-4.8  -fPIC -Wall -g -O2  -c  momentF.f90 -o momentF.o
make: gfortran-4.8: No such file or directory
make: *** [momentF.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘PerformanceAnalytics’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library/Per
formanceAnalytics’
Warning in install.packages :
 installation of package ‘PerformanceAnalytics’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘PerformanceAnalytics’ is not available for package
‘blotter’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library/blo
tter’
Warning in install.packages :
 installation of package ‘blotter’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘blotter’ is not available for package ‘quantstrat’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library/qua
ntstrat’
Warning in install.packages :
 installation of package ‘quantstrat’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/private/var/folders/7l/dpy9h0ss2450qcp053x0_sk00000gn/T/Rtmp7zLZ6J/download
ed_packages’

Leo Shpiz
518-488-7326





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