[R-SIG-Finance] rugarch package: VaR exceedances plot

2015-12-27 Thread T.Riedle
Dear all, I am trying to backtest my VaR model in R using the rugarch package. Hence, I am trying to plot the VaR exceedances using following code from the rugarch package: VaRplot(alpha=0.025,actual = returns,VaR = VaR,ylab = "daily log returns",xlab = "date") Unfortunately, I get

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Not able to install fOptions R package on ec2 spark cluster

2015-12-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 27 December 2015 at 20:32, Gayatri Nesarikar wrote: | Hello, | | I have deployed a spark cluster on ec2 using the spark-ec2 script. I am | trying to install the 'fOptions' R package in Rstudio on the master but I | am getting the following errors while the install.packages() tries to |

[R-SIG-Finance] Not able to install fOptions R package on ec2 spark cluster

2015-12-27 Thread Gayatri Nesarikar
Hello, I have deployed a spark cluster on ec2 using the spark-ec2 script. I am trying to install the 'fOptions' R package in Rstudio on the master but I am getting the following errors while the install.packages() tries to install a depedency called 'gss' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lRlapack