> On Nov 2, 2017, at 2:14 PM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Rtools is not available for the current version of R.
Really? If true, I'm surprised and not able to help. I do see an Rtools34.exe at https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ -- David. > > What I'm looking for is an alternative package or how others have managed to > create workarounds. > > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 4:25 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > > On Nov 2, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Yes, that is exactly what I was doing two days ago. > > > > Warning in install.packages : > > installation of package ‘fAsianOptions_3010.79.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit > > status > > > > Which is what a reading of the explanation for why "prob" was retired leads > > one to expect. Do you have some other suggestion about how to get it to > > work? I notice you're not using Windows which might have a relationship to > > why it is working for you. > > > I explained what you needed to do if you were on Windows. You do need to read > the explanation more closely, identify the parts you don't understand (in all > likelihood the point I made about needing the proper development tools for > Windows) _and_ read: > > https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Installing-packages > > If you have trouble understanding or getting success after thoroughly reading > these directions, you need to explain what you have done (preserving the > order of all operations) and post a complete transcript of all commands and > complete error messages. > > > > -- > David. > > Otherwise, do you know of some other package that could be used instead of > > prob? > > > > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 3:44 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > > wrote: > > > > > On Nov 2, 2017, at 12:07 PM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Yes. That's the version I've been discussing that has non-zero exit > > > status. That situation is why CRAN retired the prob package. It's > > > possible you installed that library earlier in development and it's been > > > "carried" along. It no longer installs, now. > > > > > > The problems with all of this seem to have started this month according > > > to the conversations. However, no one has mentioned any solutions or > > > workarounds except the one mentioned in passing (2.9). > > > > Not true. Not even close to being true. I explained it all on the SO > > question page that you posted 2 days ago. > > > > -- > > > > David. > > > > > > Is there some other package that does something similar to prob that can > > > be used instead? > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 2:29 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Nov 2, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > The issue is fAsianOptions. Is there a version that works with the > > > > latest version of R? If not, which version of it works with which > > > > version of R and where can it be found? I tried several at the archive > > > > already. > > > > > > sessionInfo() > > > R version 3.4.2 Patched (2017-10-04 r73465) > > > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) > > > Running under: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > packageDescription("fAsianOptions") > > > Package: fAsianOptions > > > Version: 3010.79 > > > Revision: 5522 > > > Date: 2013-06-23 > > > Title: EBM and Asian Option Valuation > > > Author: Diethelm Wuertz and many others, see the SOURCE file > > > Depends: R (>= 2.4.0), timeDate, timeSeries, fBasics, fOptions > > > Suggests: RUnit > > > Maintainer: Yohan Chalabi <yohan.chal...@rmetrics.org> > > > Description: Environment for teaching "Financial Engineering and > > > Computational Finance" > > > Note: Several parts are still preliminary and may be changed in the > > > future. this > > > typically includes function and argument names, as well as > > > defaults for > > > arguments and return values. > > > LazyData: yes > > > License: GPL (>= 2) > > > URL: http://www.rmetrics.org > > > Packaged: 2013-06-23 18:22:14 UTC; yohan > > > NeedsCompilation: yes > > > Repository: CRAN > > > Date/Publication: 2013-06-24 01:53:27 > > > Built: R 3.4.2; x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0; 2017-11-01 22:45:02 UTC; unix > > > > > > > > > > > > > Alternatively, is there another package that behaves similarly to prob? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 6:17 PM, David Winsemius > > > > <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Nov 1, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkan...@gmail.com> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The prob package has been archived because it depends upon some other > > > > > packages which have issues. > > > > > > > > > > However, such projects as Introduction to Probability and Statistics > > > > > in R > > > > > depend upon it for learning. There are a few other resources that > > > > > also use > > > > > it. > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know of any workarounds? > > > > > > > > > > Someone at stack exchange mentioned using R 2.9. > > > > > > > > I'm not sure I would trust that person. They seem a bit uninformed. > > > > > > > > > However, that broke my > > > > > RStudio (WSOD) and the dependent packages still wouldn't install, > > > > > anyway. > > > > > > > > The latest version of pkg-prob at the Archive directory of CRAN > > > > indicates that it was last updated within this year. The DESCRIPTION > > > > file indicates that it does not need compilation, but: > > > > > > > > Depends: combinat, fAsianOptions > > > > > > > > So there should be code in text files in its ../R directory which can > > > > be sourced from that directory. > > > > > > > > ~myuser_name$ ls /Users/../Downloads/prob/R > > > > characteristicfunctions.r simulation.r > > > > utils-spaces.r > > > > genData.R spaces-examples.r > > > > utils-subsets.r > > > > misc.r spaces-prob.r > > > > prob.r utils-events.r > > > > > > > > > > > > Or you can install from source after downloading: > > > > > > > > install.packages("~/Downloads/prob", repo=NULL,type="source") > > > > > > > > # Success > > > > > > > > > > > > > library(prob) # So does require having several other packages > > > > Loading required package: combinat > > > > > > > > Attaching package: ‘combinat’ > > > > > > > > The following object is masked from ‘package:utils’: > > > > > > > > combn > > > > > > > > Loading required package: fAsianOptions > > > > Loading required package: timeDate > > > > > > > > Attaching package: ‘timeDate’ > > > > > > > > The following object is masked from ‘package:cairoDevice’: > > > > > > > > Cairo > > > > > > > > The following objects are masked from ‘package:PerformanceAnalytics’: > > > > > > > > kurtosis, skewness > > > > > > > > Loading required package: timeSeries > > > > > > > > Attaching package: ‘timeSeries’ > > > > > > > > The following object is masked from ‘package:zoo’: > > > > > > > > time<- > > > > > > > > Loading required package: fBasics > > > > > > > > > > > > Rmetrics Package fBasics > > > > Analysing Markets and calculating Basic Statistics > > > > Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Rmetrics Association Zurich > > > > Educational Software for Financial Engineering and Computational Science > > > > Rmetrics is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > > > > https://www.rmetrics.org --- Mail to: i...@rmetrics.org > > > > Loading required package: fOptions > > > > > > > > > > > > Rmetrics Package fOptions > > > > Pricing and Evaluating Basic Options > > > > Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Rmetrics Association Zurich > > > > Educational Software for Financial Engineering and Computational Science > > > > Rmetrics is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > > > > https://www.rmetrics.org --- Mail to: i...@rmetrics.org > > > > > > > > Attaching package: ‘prob’ > > > > > > > > The following objects are masked from ‘package:dplyr’: > > > > > > > > intersect, setdiff, union > > > > > > > > The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’: > > > > > > > > intersect, setdiff, union > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Tiby > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > > > A specific suggestion would be that you read the listinfo and the > > > > Posting Guide and learn to post in plain text. > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > David Winsemius > > > > Alameda, CA, USA > > > > > > > > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.' > > > > -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > David Winsemius > > > Alameda, CA, USA > > > > > > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.' > > > -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > David Winsemius > > Alameda, CA, USA > > > > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.' > > -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law > > > > > > > > > > > > > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.' > -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law > > > > > > David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.' -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
