[R] "prob" package alternative

Tiby Kantrowitz
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:07:50 -0000

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).

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 <dwinsemius at
comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> > On Nov 2, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkantro at
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.chalabi at 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 <dwinsemius at
comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Nov 1, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Tiby Kantrowitz <tlkantro at
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 The prob package has been archived because it depends upon some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: info at 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: info at 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
> > >
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> > David Winsemius
> > Alameda, CA, USA
> >
> > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently
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> David Winsemius
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