[R] [FORGED] Re: rmgarch: source package installation problem

[Pietro Coretto]

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.
>