On Sep 8, 2014, at 11:31 AM, David Winsemius wrote:

> Well there is bit of a problem with this: "... Macbook Air running OSX 10.9.2 
> ".
> 
> There is no good reason to be using a version of R that is that old. But if 
> you can concoct a less-than-good reason to do so, then you need to a) have 
> the necessary Xcode for installing from source (which might not be the same 
> as the current versions of Xcode) and might depend on the unstated version of 
> MacOSX), b) identify (using the dates of packages) the version of the source 
> code for 'quantmod' and all of its dependencies, and then c) install those 
> from source all the versions of the relevant packages.

My apologies for the cognitive error that misinterpreted this as R 2.9.2. 

I would ask if Jason has read this: 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#OS-X and has all 
the approporiate Xcode and matching compilers installed before attempting to 
compile from source (as one would need to do if getting packages from r-forge)?

-- 
David.
> 
> -- 
> David.
> 
> 
> On Sep 8, 2014, at 10:06 AM, MacQueen, Don wrote:
> 
>> First a couple of suggestions (people on the various R mailing lists tend
>> to be picky about things)
>> 
>>  - do not send HTML email, send only plain text
>> 
>>  - spell things right (there is no package named “quant mod”, and
>> misspelling means you are asking potential helpers to do more work than
>> necessary)
>> 
>>  - show in the email (copy/paste) exactly what you tried, and exactly
>> what the error messages were (people need that information to help). Not
>> everyone is willing to go look at something that was posted somewhere.
>> 
>> That said, when I tried
>>  install.packages(‘quantmod’)
>> at the R prompt, it worked for me, shown below.
>> 
>> 
>>> install.packages('quantmod')
>> also installing the dependencies 'Defaults', 'TTR'
>> 
>> trying URL 
>> 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/Defaults_1.1
>> -1.tgz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 122763 bytes (119 Kb)
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 119 Kb
>> 
>> trying URL 
>> 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/TTR_0.22-0.t
>> gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 282163 bytes (275 Kb)
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 275 Kb
>> 
>> trying URL 
>> 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/quantmod_0.4
>> -0.tgz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 447862 bytes (437 Kb)
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 437 Kb
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> A standard installation of R should succeed.
>> 
>> I’ve never heard of a package named TTA, and it isn’t on CRAN. When a
>> package isn’t on CRAN you should tell the list where it’s from. Maybe you
>> meant TTR.
>> 
>> I’m running OSX 10.9.4, R 3.1.1, and it’s the “Mavericks” version of R
>> downloaded from CRAN. Don’t bother with older versions of R; virtually
>> certain to be a waste of time.
>> 
>> Possibly you need Xcode (from Apple), though not for quantmod itself, but
>> one can’t tell without seeing the error messages.
>> 
>> Can you install any packages at all, or is it just quantmod and a few
>> others you’re having trouble with?
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Don MacQueen
>> 
>> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>> 7000 East Ave., L-627
>> Livermore, CA 94550
>> 925-423-1062
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From:  Jason Eyerly <[email protected]>
>> Date:  Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 11:27 AM
>> To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject:  [R-SIG-Mac] Desperate For R-Forge/Quantmod Assistance...
>> 
>> 
>> Hello Folks,
>>  I�m on a Macbook Air running OSX 10.9.2 and I�m trying to install some
>> libraries or packages (quant mod, TTA, etc.) to begin learning how to use
>> the software. Unfortunately, I�ve encountered errors every step along the
>> way. I�ve tried with R versions 3.0.3,
>> 3.1.0, and 3.1.1 all with no luck. I�ve had difficulty with everything
>> from install.packages to install_github and just can�t seem to figure it
>> out. The steps I�m trying to follow can be seen in the screenshots at the
>> link below. If anybody can help me work
>> this out, or remote connect to see my issues, and help me get this thing
>> functional I�ll buy ya lunch! Thanks in advance!
>> 
>> https://www.bigmiketrading.com/matlab-r-project-python/32719-webinar-introd
>> uction-r-trading-w-ilya-kipnis-3.html
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>>   Jason E. 
>>       [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>> 
>> 
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