Thanks for the explanation! OK, so probably I can not change that. But then probable workaround might be to start installing all the dependencies manually (by downloading the Window Binaries) and then try again for the main package? Will it work?
Thanks a lot! Regards, Gunjan ----- Original Message ----- From: Joshua Ulrich <[email protected]> To: gunjan narulkar <[email protected]> Cc: Jeff Ryan <[email protected]>; R-SIG-Finance <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Regarding availability of TTR/Quantmod etc for RV2.15.1 On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:46 AM, gunjan narulkar <[email protected]> wrote: > My apologies. I should have given that information to start with. > > Command used: install.packages("quantmod") > > Error: package ‘quantmod’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1) > > sessionInfo() output: > R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) > Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_India.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_India.1252 > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_India.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C > [5] LC_TIME=English_India.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.15.1 > > > Please let me know if there is any other detail that I've left out. > As Jeff said, quantmod is on CRAN and the Windows binary is available, so the problem is likely with your local mirror. > > Thanks a lot, > > Regards, > Gunjan > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeff Ryan <[email protected]> > To: gunjan narulkar <[email protected]> > Cc: R-SIG-Finance <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 12:55 AM > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Regarding availability of TTR/Quantmod etc for > RV2.15.1 > > They are on CRAN > > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/quantmod/index.html > > Please provide exact errors you are encountering as well as sessionInfo() > output. > > Jeff > > Jeffrey Ryan | Founder | [email protected] > > www.lemnica.com > > On Oct 21, 2012, at 11:26 AM, gunjan narulkar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm new to both - R as well as it's usage in trading - and I'm trying me >> best to learn things myself. So kindly excuse me if my question is very >> basic. I've installed R V2.15.1 and been trying to install TTR/Quantmod >> packages on my machine using the usual install.packages command, but I keep >> getting that these packages are not available in CRAN (which indeed is that >> case as I could not found them listed on the webpage.). So any idea when >> would they be available? Also, is the only work-around is to do away with >> RV2.15.1 and go for some older version or there are any other ways to go >> about it? >> >> I'm desperate to start my practice using above packages, so please suggest >> me the alternatives. >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> Gunjan Narulkar, >> Student, >> Indian Institute of Science >> LinkedIn: in.linkedin.com/pub/gunjan-narulkar/19/a3b/521 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance >> -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. >> -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions >> should go. > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance > -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. > -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions > should go. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.
