[R] <RBloomberg Package Problem>

[Duncan Temple Lang]

Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote:
> Hello Experts,
> This is error I get in downloading RDCOMClient... 
> 
> /**************************/
>> install.packages("RDCOMClient",
> +                     repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R")
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://www.omegahat.org/R/bin/windows/contrib/2.4
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =
> available,  : 
>          no package 'RDCOMClient' at the repositories
> 
> /***************************/

Well, I just tested it on my Windows setup and
I can access the packages, get the package, etc.
So there seems to be something about your connection
to the Omegahat site.  Various things come to mind,
but the index is available.

> 
> I also tried to download it via the local zip folders using the site
> which gives it namely, http://www.omegahat.org/RDCOMClient/
> 
> But was unsuccessful...
> 
> Please help me ASAP...

You'll need to give a little more information if
you want us to help with that one. "Unsuccessful"
doesn't give us much to go on.


> 
> Thanks in advance..
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Duncan Temple
> Lang
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:00 PM
> To: Gabor Grothendieck
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Shubha Karanth
> Subject: Re: [R] <RBloomberg Package Problem>
> 
> The RDCOMClient is available from a different repository
> 
>    http://www.omegahat.org/R
> 
> You can include it in the list of repositories being
> searched on Windows using the Packages menu in the R GUI
> and then select the entry Select repositories
> and include Omegahat in the selection.
> Or just install RDCOMClient manually
>    install.packages("RDCOMClient",
>                     repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R")
> 
> and then install RBloomberg as before.
> 
>    D.
> 
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>> Never used it but if you look down the check list on Windows:
>>
>>   http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.html
>>
>> for RBloomberg we see it has an error in attempting to access one of
> its
>> dependent packages.  See if building it yourself or going back to R
> 2.3.1
>> helps.
>>
>> On 11/16/06, Shubha Karanth <shubhakaranth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi R-Experts,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm currently using R 2.4.0 in Windows XP. I'm trying to download
> data
>>> from Bloomberg using the package "RBloomberg", but it fails to
> install
>>> the three needed packages "zoo", "chron" and 'Rbloomberg". Moreover I
>>> am not able to find "RBloomberg" package as windows binary in CRAN
>>> site as only for MAC it's given. Please help me in this regard. And
> if
>>> anyone have faced version problem, please do let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Subha.
>>>
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