stabledist

[Yohan Chalabi]

On Oct 29, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Martin Maechler wrote:

> Dear Oliver
> (I'm writing in English because of the CC).
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Kley, Oliver <oliver.kley at tum.de> wrote:
>> Lieber Herr Maechler,
>> 
>> ich wollte das stabledist package von rmetrics installieren, wie im wiki beschrieben:
>> 
>> 
>> The script installs all Rmetrics packages from your default CRAN repository ('repos'). This will ensure that all packages are up-to-date.
>> 
>> Open an R process and type the following :
>> 
>>   source("http://www.rmetrics.org/Rmetrics.R")
>>   install.Rmetrics()
>> 
>> 
>> allerdings, neben der installation zahlreicher pakete, kam insbesondere die folgende meldung, in deren vorletzter zeile steht, dass stabledist nicht verfuegbar ist --koennen Sie mir weiterhelfen?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> + source("http://www.rmetrics.org/Rmetrics.R")
>> +    install.Rmetrics()
>> Warning in install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, ...) :
>>  argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
>> Warning in install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, ...) :
>>  'lib = "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"' is not writable
>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
>> Warning: dependency ‘stabledist’ is not available
>> also installing the dependencies ‘numDeriv’, ‘DistributionUtils’, ‘GeneralizedHyperbolic’
> 
> Yes, indeed this is a bug in the  install.Rmetrics() function;

Hi Martin,

install.Rmetrics() is a plain wrapper of install.packages with the list of Rmetrics packages:

install.Rmetrics <- function (pkgs = pkgsRmetrics(), ...)
    install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, ...)

What Oliver is missing is either write permission for "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" or the "lib" argument to specify a library path in his home directory.

Regards,
Yohan

> Unfortunately, even though I'm part of Rmetrics-core,
> I have no write access to  http://www.rmetrics.org/Rmetrics.R
> which defines the  install.Rmetrics() function  and so I cannot fix it.
> 
> HOWEVER, there is an easy workaround:
> do
> 
> install.packages("stabledist")
> 
> before doing the other installations.
> 
> Please let me know if you have problems, observe pecularities, ... in package
> 'stabledist'.
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin Mächler
> 
> 
>> 
>> Viele Gruesse
>> 
>> Oliver Kley
>> 
> 
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