On 28/03/2011 7:30 AM, Luis Felipe Parra wrote:
Hello I have downloaded the fPortfolioSolver package from R-forge but I have
not been able to install it. I don't know exactly where I should place the
file and which commands to give R. Could somebody please help me with this.
Thank you
A .tar.gz file contains the source for the package, so you need to
process it into a binary format to install it. For simple packages you
can do this in recent versions of R using
install.packages("fPortfolioSolver.tar.gz", type="source", repos=NULL)
but if it contains compiled code, you'll probably need to install tools
first. See the R Installation and Administration Manual for full
details; the tools are downloadable from
<http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools>. Once the tools are properly
installed, the above line should work.
The other way to do it is from a CMD window (not in R), running
R CMD INSTALL fPortfolioSolver.tar.gz
This is equivalent to the R command above, but is sometimes easier to
set up, because you can easily modify your PATH variable in the CMD window.
Duncan
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