The website given no longer exists. The usual first approach is to contact the author of the books to ask if there's a new location.
You could also try installing fPortfolio directly from CRAN: install.packages("fPortfolio") Sarah On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Jack Bryan <dtustud...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply. > > I am trying to run R 2.15.2 on Win 7. > > I am trying to run some example R code of the book :Portfolio Optimization > with R/Rmetrics > > fPortfolio package is included in ebookPortfolio. > > From the book, I was told that : > > To install all packages required for the examples of this ebook we > recommendthat you install the bundle package ebookPortfolio. > This can be done with the following commands in the R environment. If there > is no binary package for your operating system, you can install the package > from source with the argument type = "source". > >> install.packages("ebookPortfolio",repos = >> c("http://pkg.rmetrics.org","http://cran.r-project.org"),type = >> getOption("pkgType")) > > I got : > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://pkg.rmetrics.org/src/contribWarning: package ‘ebookPortfolio’ is not > available (for R version 2.15.2)Warning: unable to access index for > repository http://pkg.rmetrics.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.15 > Is this an error ? > > I am a new user of R. > > How to handle it ? How to install ebookPortfolio package ? > > Any help will be appreciated. > > Thanks > > > >> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:46:53 -0500 >> Subject: Re: [R] Error: R could not find "listDescription" >> From: sarah.gos...@gmail.com >> To: dtustud...@hotmail.com >> CC: r-help@r-project.org >> >> Where did you get the document that tells you to use that code? Does >> it also tell you to load particular packages? >> >> www.rseek.org turns up a listDescription() function in the fBasics >> package, but that isn't necessarily the one you need for whatever >> application you're pursuing. >> >> Sarah >> >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Jack Bryan <dtustud...@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am running R on Win 7. >> > >> > I got error for > listDescription(fPortfolio) >> > >> > Error: could not find function "listDescription" >> > >> > What do I need to install for solving this ? >> > >> > Any help will be appreciated. >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.