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

[Leo Shpiz]

I use Parallels on my iMAC and was able to install quantstrat from sources on the Windows 10.

I will continue to try to get the MAC version running.

Thanks for your help

Leo Shpiz
518-488-7326




> On Jan 28, 2017, at 1:18 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 28, 2017, at 8:17 AM, Leo Shpiz via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac at r-project.org <mailto: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/> <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/ <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/> <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/ <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> <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> <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:> <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> <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> <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> <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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