Installing quantstrat
Thanks for your help! I got quantstrat working after building it along with the FinancialInstrument and blotter packages (as well as foreach). Ira
On Nov 26, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Joshua Ulrich wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Ira Fuchs <irafuchs at gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks. Since quantstrat showed a Last change date of only 6 days ago and a Build status of "Current", I blithely assumed that the command that is shown for installing it would work:
install.packages("quantstrat", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
Installing package into ?/Users/ihf/Library/R/3.0/library?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/macosx/contrib/3.0
package ?quantstrat? is available as a source package but not as a binary
Warning message:
package ?quantstrat? is not available (for R version 3.0.1)
Based on the posting you referred to on stackoverflow, I need to download the SVN version and then see if I can build it. Although, I presume that if it were that simple, why would the version crated a week ago not work?
I don't know; that's a question for the R-Forge maintainers. It looks like they're building with 3.0.2, but I'm not sure that matters. The easiest thing to do it just check out the source and build it yourself.
On Nov 26, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Joshua Ulrich wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Ira Fuchs <irafuchs at gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to try to run the quantstrat package (located here: https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=316). However, if I try to load quantstrat, I get a warning that it is not available for R v3.0.1, so perhaps that is the end of it. Does anyone know if it is possible to run quantstrat with the current version of R?
Yep, see here: http://stackoverflow.com/q/11105131/271616 Best, -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com