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> On Mar 31, 2025, at 5:13 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Mar 31, 2025, at 10:04 PM, Naresh Gurbuxani
>> <naresh_gurbux...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Simon,
>>
>> Website mac.r-project.org/tools/ lists mandatory libraries. In the next
>> paragraph, it has a link to “binaries of libraries and tools for Mac OS
>> page”. Clicking on the link takes user to mac.r-project.org/bin. Here the
>> only method of install described is via install.libs(). By using
>> install.libs(), I found out that binaries (for my Intel Mac) are located at
>> mac.r-project.org/bin/darwin20/x86_64/. But if I did not already have R
>> installed, I would not be able to go to this location.
>>
>
>
> You can always go directly to the binaries - the links are right on the front
> page. The R script is just a convenience method to resolve dependencies if
> you have complex requirements so you don't have to do it yourself. Besides,
> you can always grab R from CRAN to bootstrap it if that's what you are going
> for.
>
> If there is a way to improve the documentation to make it clearer, I'm open
> to suggestions.
>
In the Index section, there is a link to “Sources for tools and binaries”. But
on the tools page, there are only links to liblzma and PCRE2 websites. Here
you can also provide links to binaries above.
>
>> On the page mac.r-project.org/bin, perhaps you can provide links to the
>> binaries location. Currently the only links provided are to liblzma and
>> PCRE2 homepages. When downloading from those locations, user may need to
>> run ./configure, make, and make install.
>>
>> I am only starting out with QuantLib, so not sure if intraday feature is
>> widely used.
>>
>
>
> Well, in that case I don't understand why you did all the work of recompiling
> it as that is then entirely unnecessary - all you needed to do was to simply
> install it from CRAN with
>
> install.packages("RQuantLib")
>
> I'm sure I must be missing something here ...
>
I just wanted a “clean” or “complete” package install, not knowing how much
trouble that would create. A new user can be unsettled by warnings coming from
loading a package.
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
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