You can easily change your mirror, see ?utils::chooseCRANmirror
Jeff On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:46 AM, gunjan narulkar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Jeffrey Ryan [email protected] www.lemnica.com _______________________________________________ [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.
