> On Nov 2, 2017, at 12:07 PM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes. That's the version I've been discussing that has non-zero exit status.
> That situation is why CRAN retired the prob package. It's possible you
> installed that library earlier in development and it's been "carried" along.
> It no longer installs, now.
>
> The problems with all of this seem to have started this month according to
> the conversations. However, no one has mentioned any solutions or workarounds
> except the one mentioned in passing (2.9).
Not true. Not even close to being true. I explained it all on the SO question
page that you posted 2 days ago.
--
David.
>
> Is there some other package that does something similar to prob that can be
> used instead?
>
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 2:29 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 2, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The issue is fAsianOptions. Is there a version that works with the latest
> > version of R? If not, which version of it works with which version of R and
> > where can it be found? I tried several at the archive already.
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.4.2 Patched (2017-10-04 r73465)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
>
> >
>
>
> packageDescription("fAsianOptions")
> Package: fAsianOptions
> Version: 3010.79
> Revision: 5522
> Date: 2013-06-23
> Title: EBM and Asian Option Valuation
> Author: Diethelm Wuertz and many others, see the SOURCE file
> Depends: R (>= 2.4.0), timeDate, timeSeries, fBasics, fOptions
> Suggests: RUnit
> Maintainer: Yohan Chalabi <yohan.chal...@rmetrics.org>
> Description: Environment for teaching "Financial Engineering and
> Computational Finance"
> Note: Several parts are still preliminary and may be changed in the future.
> this
> typically includes function and argument names, as well as defaults
> for
> arguments and return values.
> LazyData: yes
> License: GPL (>= 2)
> URL: http://www.rmetrics.org
> Packaged: 2013-06-23 18:22:14 UTC; yohan
> NeedsCompilation: yes
> Repository: CRAN
> Date/Publication: 2013-06-24 01:53:27
> Built: R 3.4.2; x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0; 2017-11-01 22:45:02 UTC; unix
>
>
>
> > Alternatively, is there another package that behaves similarly to prob?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 6:17 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Nov 1, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The prob package has been archived because it depends upon some other
> > > packages which have issues.
> > >
> > > However, such projects as Introduction to Probability and Statistics in R
> > > depend upon it for learning. There are a few other resources that also use
> > > it.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of any workarounds?
> > >
> > > Someone at stack exchange mentioned using R 2.9.
> >
> > I'm not sure I would trust that person. They seem a bit uninformed.
> >
> > > However, that broke my
> > > RStudio (WSOD) and the dependent packages still wouldn't install, anyway.
> >
> > The latest version of pkg-prob at the Archive directory of CRAN indicates
> > that it was last updated within this year. The DESCRIPTION file indicates
> > that it does not need compilation, but:
> >
> > Depends: combinat, fAsianOptions
> >
> > So there should be code in text files in its ../R directory which can be
> > sourced from that directory.
> >
> > ~myuser_name$ ls /Users/../Downloads/prob/R
> > characteristicfunctions.r simulation.r
> > utils-spaces.r
> > genData.R spaces-examples.r
> > utils-subsets.r
> > misc.r spaces-prob.r
> > prob.r utils-events.r
> >
> >
> > Or you can install from source after downloading:
> >
> > install.packages("~/Downloads/prob", repo=NULL,type="source")
> >
> > # Success
> >
> >
> > > library(prob) # So does require having several other packages
> > Loading required package: combinat
> >
> > Attaching package: ‘combinat’
> >
> > The following object is masked from ‘package:utils’:
> >
> > combn
> >
> > Loading required package: fAsianOptions
> > Loading required package: timeDate
> >
> > Attaching package: ‘timeDate’
> >
> > The following object is masked from ‘package:cairoDevice’:
> >
> > Cairo
> >
> > The following objects are masked from ‘package:PerformanceAnalytics’:
> >
> > kurtosis, skewness
> >
> > Loading required package: timeSeries
> >
> > Attaching package: ‘timeSeries’
> >
> > The following object is masked from ‘package:zoo’:
> >
> > time<-
> >
> > Loading required package: fBasics
> >
> >
> > Rmetrics Package fBasics
> > Analysing Markets and calculating Basic Statistics
> > Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Rmetrics Association Zurich
> > Educational Software for Financial Engineering and Computational Science
> > Rmetrics is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > https://www.rmetrics.org --- Mail to: i...@rmetrics.org
> > Loading required package: fOptions
> >
> >
> > Rmetrics Package fOptions
> > Pricing and Evaluating Basic Options
> > Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Rmetrics Association Zurich
> > Educational Software for Financial Engineering and Computational Science
> > Rmetrics is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > https://www.rmetrics.org --- Mail to: i...@rmetrics.org
> >
> > Attaching package: ‘prob’
> >
> > The following objects are masked from ‘package:dplyr’:
> >
> > intersect, setdiff, union
> >
> > The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:
> >
> > intersect, setdiff, union
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Tiby
> > >
> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >
> > A specific suggestion would be that you read the listinfo and the Posting
> > Guide and learn to post in plain text.
> > >
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> >
> > David Winsemius
> > Alameda, CA, USA
> >
> > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'
> > -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
>
> 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'
> -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
>
>
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