R help - Jan 2020 - [FORGED] Re: rmgarch: source package installation problem

On 30/12/2019 12.11, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 30/12/2019 5:59 a.m., Pietro Coretto wrote:
[...]
> You didn't show us the command you used to install it.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch

Sorry for this,


I used the following:

install.packages("rmgarch")

from the linux command line, using both a regular user account and root. 
Same issue anyway

Thanks
Pietro

On 31/12/19 12:29 am, Pietro Coretto wrote:
> On 30/12/2019 12.11, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 30/12/2019 5:59 a.m., Pietro Coretto wrote:
> [...]
>> You didn't show us the command you used to install it.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> 
> Sorry for this,
> 
> 
> I used the following:
> 
> install.packages("rmgarch")
> 
> from the linux command line, using both a regular user account and root. 
> Same issue anyway.
Did you *really* issue that command from the linux command line?  This 
makes no sense at all.  That is a command to be issued from the R console.

Under Linux, that command, issued from the R console, will I believe 
install from source.  Under Windoze or Mac OS this is (as I understand 
it) not the case.

To install from source under Mac OS I *think* you should:

(1) Download the source package rmgarch_1.3-7.tar.gz from CRAN

(2) From the command line (in a terminal window) issue the command

     R CMD INSTALL rmgarch_1.3-7.tar.gz -l <library name>

     where "<library name>" is the name of the directory in
which you
     keep your "privately" installed packages.

     You need ("of course") to have all the necessary tools and
compilers
     installed for this to work.

     The source "rmgarch_1.3-7.tar.gz" must be place in the same
     directory as that from which you opened the terminal window.

Something like this should also work under Windoze, but there are 
probably extra "gotchas" under that system, and I can give you no 
guidance there.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

-- 
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276

On 2/01/20 9:51 pm, Pietro Coretto wrote:

<SNIP>
> No problem Rolf. Thanks for you interest. But the problem is still 
> unsolved!
I experimented and found that I too could not install rmgarch.  However 
the string of error messages that I got was quite different from yours.

I did some scrounging around and after a bit of trial and error found 
that I needed to do:

sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev
sudo apt-get install libmpfr-dev

Then the R command

    install.packages("rmgarch",lib="~/Rlib")

worked.  (Note that "~/Rlib" is where I keep my
"contributed" packages.)

This is under Ubuntu 18.04.  I don't know if this will work for you 
since, as I said, the error messages that I initially got were different 
from those that you got.

*Don't* ask me about what to do under Mac OSX or (God save us!) under 
Windoze!!! :-)

cheers,

Rolf

P.S. I have taken the liberty of CC-ing this to the r-help list in case 
it is of interest to others or in case others may have useful 
contributions to add.

R.

-- 
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276

Dear All

I could solve the problem: I removed my .Rprofile and I could install 
the package via the usual

install.packages("rmgarch")

My .Rprofile contains few settings, therefore, it was not too difficult 
to understand what was conflicting with the installation.  The issue in 
.Rprofile was the following

q <-  function (save="no", ...) {
    quit(save=save, ...)
}


Regards
Pietro Coretto





On 02/01/2020 23.54, Rolf Turner wrote:
> 
> On 2/01/20 9:51 pm, Pietro Coretto wrote:
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
>> No problem Rolf. Thanks for you interest. But the problem is still 
>> unsolved!
> 
> I experimented and found that I too could not install rmgarch.? However 
> the string of error messages that I got was quite different from yours.
> 
> I did some scrounging around and after a bit of trial and error found 
> that I needed to do:
> 
> sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev
> sudo apt-get install libmpfr-dev
> 
> Then the R command
> 
>  ?? install.packages("rmgarch",lib="~/Rlib")
> 
> worked.? (Note that "~/Rlib" is where I keep my
"contributed" packages.)
> 
> This is under Ubuntu 18.04.? I don't know if this will work for you 
> since, as I said, the error messages that I initially got were different 
> from those that you got.
> 
> *Don't* ask me about what to do under Mac OSX or (God save us!) under 
> Windoze!!! :-)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf
> 
> P.S. I have taken the liberty of CC-ing this to the r-help list in case 
> it is of interest to others or in case others may have useful 
> contributions to add.
> 
> R.
>