error of installing/building an R package (PortfolioAnalytics) on Win 7

Thanks for your reply.

On
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/

Frozen
Rtools216.exe   R >2.15.1 to R 2.16.x  No
Frozen means "no available" ?

So, PortfolioAnalytics cannot be used on Linux or Win until Mar. 2012 ?

Are there substitutes ?

Any help will be appreciated.

I'm not sure that's your problem -- I just downloaded Portfolio and
PerformanceAnalytics and built them both from source with no problem.
(So something's afoot with the r-forge build and I have a hunch it's a
dependency on a more recent xts than is available on CRAN, but I could
be wrong)

Can you install from the command line? svn checkout + R CMD install.
I'd start with building xts from source (admittedly harder because it
has c code unlike PA) but so goes dependency management.

Since you're on Windows, I'd also just (re-)remind you to make sure
your path has no spaces in it.

Michael