I’ve just upgraded to Mavericks V10.9.4, and I’m installing Xcode 4.2 and 
planned on installing fortran V4.2.4 that I found at this link: 
http://r.research.att.com/tools/

Lastly, I’m going to use Apple’s Xcode to install the command line tools, as 
instructed here: 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#OS-X

Am I correct in thinking this is all I will need to install (excluding R and 
RStudio again) before this should work and successfully build and install 
packages?

-Jason E.

On Sep 8, 2014, at 12:13 PM, David Winsemius <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 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. 
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>>> 
>>> 
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