R: Is there a reason why there isn't a Windows Binary version of RQuantlib on CRAN? Usually when there is no binary, I just source the source code, but this one appears to have various calls and methods and things like that so I'm hesitant to do so. I know there has been a big discussion on why Rmetrics doesn't have source for unix/linux, but that isn't on CRAN. Through that Rmetrics thread, I think I read that all CRAN packages have source (except for one), but shouldn't all CRAN packages also have binary? Think they should. Jason Higbee Research Associate Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis E: jason.l.higbee@stls.frb.org The views expressed in this email are the author's and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis or the Federal Reserve System [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Jason.L.Higbee at stls.frb.org wrote:> R: > > Is there a reason why there isn't a Windows Binary version of RQuantlib on > CRAN? Usually when there is no binary, I just source the source code, but > this one appears to have various calls and methods and things like that so > I'm hesitant to do so. I know there has been a big discussion on why > Rmetrics doesn't have source for unix/linux, but that isn't on CRAN. > Through that Rmetrics thread, I think I read that all CRAN packages have > source (except for one), but shouldn't all CRAN packages also have binary?All CRAN packages *do* have a source version. But *not* all CRAN packages have binaries. See http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.html what hapens to the package. hat page points you to http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.9/ReadMe Uwe Ligges> Think they should. > > Jason Higbee > Research Associate > Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis > E: jason.l.higbee at stls.frb.org > The views expressed in this email are the author's and not necessarily > those of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis or the Federal Reserve > System > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Jason, On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:48:16AM -0500, Jason.L.Higbee at stls.frb.org wrote:> R: > > Is there a reason why there isn't a Windows Binary version of RQuantlib on > CRAN? Usually when there is no binary, I just source the source code, butYes, there is. On windows, QuantLib wants to be built with Visual C++ whereas R wants to be built with MinGW. When I first published RQuantLib, I thought it to be impossible to be built on Windows ... only to receive an email from Tsvetan Stoyanov who detailed how to build both under win2000. I did try that at one point an succeeded. The recipe is still on my page for RQuantLib at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rquantlib.html The recipe may well need updating. If you try it, would you mind sharing your experience, maybe in a private email, so that I can update the page?> this one appears to have various calls and methods and things like that so > I'm hesitant to do so. I know there has been a big discussion on why > Rmetrics doesn't have source for unix/linux, but that isn't on CRAN. > Through that Rmetrics thread, I think I read that all CRAN packages have > source (except for one), but shouldn't all CRAN packages also have binary? > Think they should.Not that easy as Uwe mentioned. Hope this helps, Dirk -- The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown. -- From the pac(8) manual page