Hi Mark, You are probably using the nig or ghyp distributions which do not have a closed form quantile function so it is evaluating it for every point (which is expensive!). Try the jsu distribution instead...it is very flexible and fast to evaluate.
Best, Alexios > On 28 May 2014, at 16:13, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Alexios. With a bit of guessing about Latex packages I got the > appendix directory installed and the R code runs. (Mostly - The first > 3 plots are created. I've been waiting for about 20 minutes for the > quantile plot to finish but no results on that one yet. > > Anyway, it works well enough for me to go a bit deeper now. > > Cheers, > Mark > >> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:08 PM, alexios ghalanos <alex...@4dscape.com> >> wrote: >> Hi Mark, >> >> 1. Have a look at the "install_bitbucket" documentation. There is the >> option I believe to pass some extra arguments to "install" via '...'. >> Specifically the "dependencies" (logical) and "build_vignettes" arguments. >> 2. You need to have the "appendix" package in your latex installation >> (see the documentation of your linux flavor on how to do this). >> 3. fftw on CRAN builds ok for everything but OSX Mavericks...I may >> remove it going forward and use the base implementation to avoid too >> many problematic dependencies, but would welcome any feedback on speed >> comparisons. >> >> Best, >> >> Alexios >> >>> On 27/05/2014 21:43, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:59 PM, alexios ghalanos <alex...@4dscape.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> Since 2013 the development repository for my packages has moved (a >>>> couple of time). See: >>>> http://www.unstarched.net/r-downloads/ >>>> for latest details. >>>> >>>> -Alexios >>> >>> Thanks Alexios. I started reading that based on Pierre's response but >>> I'm hung up: >>> >>> 1) I needed the fftw package to install but it wouldn't as it was not >>> finding fftw3. I then found fftw-3.3.3-r2 in Gentoo portage and think >>> I got past that problem. >>> >>> 2) I'm now just trying to install all the packages shown on yor >>> r-downloads page but rmgarch won't install apparently due to (I think) >>> Latex issues. I got as far as failing due to something called texi2dvi >>> which I found and installed from portage again, but now I have this >>> problem due to a missing appendix.sty file I think. >>> >>> Thanks for any pointers into what I'm doing wrong here. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10) -- "Spring Dance" >>> Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing >>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >>> >>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. >>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. >>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. >>> >>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors. >>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and >>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. >>> >>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or >>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. >>> Type 'q()' to quit R. >>> >>>> require(devtools) >>> Loading required package: devtools >>> >>> Attaching package: ‘devtools’ >>> >>> The following objects are masked from ‘package:utils’: >>> >>> ?, help >>> >>> The following object is masked from ‘package:base’: >>> >>> system.file >>> >>>> install_bitbucket("rmgarch","alexiosg") >>> Installing bitbucket repo(s) rmgarch/master from alexiosg >>> Downloading master.zip from >>> https://bitbucket.org/alexiosg/rmgarch/get/master.zip >>> Installing package from /tmp/Rtmpwt0Tnh/master.zip >>> arguments 'minimized' and 'invisible' are for Windows only >>> Installing rmgarch >>> '/usr/lib64/R/bin/R' --vanilla CMD build >>> '/tmp/Rtmpwt0Tnh/devtools2a9e1a643c4a/alexiosg-rmgarch-d012deb54925' >>> \ >>> --no-manual --no-resave-data >>> >>> * checking for file >>> '/tmp/Rtmpwt0Tnh/devtools2a9e1a643c4a/alexiosg-rmgarch-d012deb54925/DESCRIPTION' >>> ... OK >>> * preparing 'rmgarch': >>> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK >>> * cleaning src >>> * installing the package to build vignettes >>> * creating vignettes ... ERROR >>> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : >>> Running 'texi2dvi' on 'The_rmgarch_models.tex' failed. >>> LaTeX errors: >>> ! LaTeX Error: File `appendix.sty' not found. >>> >>> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed, >>> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty) >>> >>> ! Emergency stop. >>> <read *> >>> >>> l.9 \usepackage >>> [round]{natbib}^^M >>> ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! >>> Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi >>> Execution halted >>> Error: Command failed (1) >>> >>>> >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.
