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
>>>
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