The package is in the Ubuntu repos and it seems to work. I have just installed it on my Ubuntu 10.04 in VirtualBox under MacOS 10.6 so it might be a solution.
Best Andreas Den 10/06/2010 kl. 09.43 skrev Kyle Matoba: > Hello Professor Ripley, > > I see. Yes, I failed to compile it myself on my CentOS machine > subsequent to sending this email also. Very kind of you to get back > to me on this point. I will see if I can get access to a Windows > machine and failing that, I will see about compiling QuantLib myself. > If I am successful I will remit this to the list. > > Best, > > Kyle > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Prof Brian Ripley > <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Kyle Matoba wrote: >> >>> Just wondering if there was any plans to get this up and running again: >>> >>> >>> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/RQuantLib-00install.html >>> >>> If not, I will compile it myself. >> >> You may not find it easy. The issue is that RQuantLib depends on QuantLib, >> in fact on a recent version of QuantLib (later than the one in the current >> Fedora distribution, for example). QuantLib is a large C++ suite of >> programs, and I've failed to compile it on Linux in the past, and when I >> have succeeded the package failed its own tests. >> >>> I don't see anything in the changelog to indicate that this is >>> deliberate. Could whomever is compiling for macs look into this? >> >> It is done by Simon Urbanek's autobuiilder. I don't see anything which >> indicates that it is not deliberate .... >> >> If you look at the packages which are not being built by the Mac >> autobuiilder you will see three main reasons why: >> >> (a) the package fails its tests, e.g. lme4 >> (b) the package depends on other packages which are not available on the >> build machine, usually from BioC or OmegaHat. >> (c) the package depends on external software. >> >> RQuantLib is in category (c), and very few such packages are being built >> (not even Simon's own packages GDD and proj4). If you look at the CRAN test >> logs, the only platform on which RQuantLib is being installed is 32-bit >> Windows (not even Debian on which it is developed) -- and that is because >> the author supplied a pre-compiled Windows version of QuantLib. >> >> I suspect you seriously underestimate the work which goes into providing R >> binary packages. I know (I used to do it on Windows and still contribute >> there) just how thankless (literally and metaphorically) it is. >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >> > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
