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

[David Winsemius]

> On Jan 28, 2017, at 8:17 AM, Leo Shpiz via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 error below said that the Fortran version being sought for compiling the packages was:

** 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

There is a link on the page you cited to a listing of source for various packages and gfortran 4.8 is one of them:

http://r.research.att.com/libs/

Beyond that I was unable to get successful compilation of the package related to failure of a dependency, 'blotter', to compile. That failure was reportedly as a result of failure to open PerformancAnalytics. I did at one time install Version: 1.4.4000 which is a higher number than the current CRAN version which fails to install as well. 


> 
> The fortran was installed in usr2 and I moved local to the usr directory and
> then executed
> 
> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

If you want /usr/local/bin/ to be the _first_ place looked for the compilers to look you will use:

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

> 
> 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/>")

I would have used (adding dependencies and making the URL simple):

install.packages("quantstrat", dependencies=TRUE, repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org/", type="source")

This did succeed eventually after a lot of unsuccessful attempts without error after installing the `highfrequency` package (which is the successor to RTAQ) and the `blotter` package both from source.

(I'm still unable to get a `library` call to load pkg-PerformanceAnalytics to be successful, so I don't know how stable these interlocking packages will be. I had previous had difficulty with loading that package, and these difficulties persist.)

Best of luck (but not entirely optimistic);

David.

> 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)
> ==================================================
> 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)
> ==================================================
> 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)
> ==================================================
> 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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David Winsemius
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