On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Ira Fuchs <irafu...@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 <irafu...@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
>
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