Hi Simon, Thanks, as always, for your hard work on the behalf of mac users. For now, I only need to run a quick few things, but if it happens that I will need to be using this package on a more continuous basis, I will get in touch about hammering it into shape on linux and OS X.
Best, Kyle On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Prof Brian Ripley 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 a package depends on external software it is built only if a) there is > some demand for it and b) the dependencies can be built into self-contained > static libraries with reasonably moderate effort. > > Now, since a) has been satisfied by this e-mail I was able to compile > QuantLib and it is now available on the CRAN machine, but as Brian pointed > out RQuantLib doesn't even pass its own checks, so despite our efforts there > will be no binary. If you still want to build it despite it failing its own > checks, you can get the QuantLib binary from > http://r.research.att.com/libs/ > (beware, it's huge) and put the "boost" directory (containing the headers) > from the Boost source distribution in /usr/local/include and you'll be able > to compile RQuantLib for yourself. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > >> 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
