PerformanceAnalytics package installation

PerformanceAnalytics R package for Performance and Risk Analysis

We are pleased to release for the use and review of our peers and
mentors this R package of econometric tools for performance and risk
analysis.

We are soliciting feedback on the PerformanceAnalytics package on
R-SIG-Finance in preparation for releasing this package to CRAN and
submission to one of the implementation journals.  We believe that the
code here is stable and usable, please report any problems that you
encounter.  We intend to continue adding documentation and examples
during this review period as well, so please suggest refinements,
examples, or references.  We intend to write a vignette that can
include inline equations, code, and graphics as part of the publication
process, but that may not be completed before the first release to
CRAN.

PerformanceAnalytics R package version 0.9.3 (v1.0rc1)

I've received a few requests for information on how to install the 
Performanceanalytics package tarball,especially on MS Windows.

I've done a bit more digging, and here's what I've found:

I install from the shell command line with 

R CMD INSTALL PerformanceAnalytics_0.9.3.tar.gz

I don't directly know how to install a package tarball under R for 
Windows.

Here's what I was able to find with a bit of digging...

I don't see any instructions on installing source packages in Windows 
here:
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation:packages

On this page:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html

I see this:

<quote>
What install.packages does by default is different on Unix and Windows. On 
Unix-alikes (include MacOS X unless running from the GUI console) it 
consults the list of available source packages on CRAN (or other 
repository/ies), downloads the latest version of the package sources, and 
installs them (via R CMD INSTALL). On Windows it looks (by default) at 
the list of binary versions of packages available for your version of R 
and downloads the latest versions (if any), although optionally it will 
also download and install a source package by setting the type argument.

install.packages can install a source package from a local .tar.gz file by 
setting argument repos to NULL.

On Windows install.packages can also install a binary package from a local 
zip file by setting argument repos to NULL.
</quote>

Hope it helps...

Regards,

? ?- Brian

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http://braverock.com/brian/resume-quant.pdf