[R] Error: R could not find "listDescription"

[Sarah Goslee]

The website given no longer exists.

The usual first approach is to contact the author of the books to ask
if there's a new location.

You could also try installing fPortfolio directly from CRAN:
install.packages("fPortfolio")

Sarah

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Jack Bryan <dtustudy68 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I am trying to run R 2.15.2 on Win 7.
>
> I am trying to run some example R code of the book :Portfolio Optimization
> with R/Rmetrics
>
> fPortfolio package is included in ebookPortfolio.
>
> From the book, I was told that :
>
> To install all packages required for the examples of this ebook we
> recommendthat you install the bundle package ebookPortfolio.
> This can be done with the following commands in the R environment. If there
> is no binary package for your operating system, you can install the package
> from source with the argument type = "source".
>
>> install.packages("ebookPortfolio",repos =
>> c("http://pkg.rmetrics.org","http://cran.r-project.org"),type =
>> getOption("pkgType"))
>
> I got :
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://pkg.rmetrics.org/src/contribWarning: package ‘ebookPortfolio’ is not
> available (for R version 2.15.2)Warning: unable to access index for
> repository http://pkg.rmetrics.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
> Is this an error ?
>
> I am a new user of R.
>
> How to handle it ? How to install ebookPortfolio package ?
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:46:53 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [R] Error: R could not find "listDescription"
>> From: sarah.goslee at gmail.com
>> To: dtustudy68 at hotmail.com
>> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>>
>> Where did you get the document that tells you to use that code? Does
>> it also tell you to load particular packages?
>>
>> www.rseek.org turns up a listDescription() function in the fBasics
>> package, but that isn't necessarily the one you need for whatever
>> application you're pursuing.
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Jack Bryan <dtustudy68 at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am running R on Win 7.
>> >
>> > I got error for > listDescription(fPortfolio)
>> >
>> > Error: could not find function "listDescription"
>> >
>> > What do I need to install for solving this ?
>> >
>> > Any help will be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>>

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Sarah Goslee
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