[R] error of installing/building an R package (PortfolioAnalytics) on Win 7

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:13 AM, R. Michael Weylandt
<michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Jack Bryan <dtustudy68 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> On
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/
>>
>> Frozen
>> Rtools216.exe   R >2.15.1 to R 2.16.x  No
>> Frozen means "no available" ?
>>
>> So, PortfolioAnalytics cannot be used on Linux or Win until Mar. 2012 ?
>>
>> Are there substitutes ?
>>
>> Any help will be appreciated.
>>
>
> I'm not sure that's your problem -- I just downloaded Portfolio and
> PerformanceAnalytics and built them both from source with no problem.
> (So something's afoot with the r-forge build and I have a hunch it's a
> dependency on a more recent xts than is available on CRAN, but I could
> be wrong)
>
Your hunch is correct.  Performance Analytics on R-Forge requires the
latest xts from R-Forge.

> Can you install from the command line? svn checkout + R CMD install.
> I'd start with building xts from source (admittedly harder because it
> has c code unlike PA) but so goes dependency management.
>
> Since you're on Windows, I'd also just (re-)remind you to make sure
> your path has no spaces in it.
>
> Michael
>

Best,
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