在 GitHub 上安装 blotter 和 quantstrat

Question

I am experiencing a hard time in installing the blotter and quantstrat packages from Github. Most helps I can find online are quite outdated issued back then when they are hosted on sourceforge. I try to use the install_github() function and it returns error below. (In fact there is similar error when I try R-Forge) Can anyone provide a clue on what is happening here?

install_github("braverock/blotter")
Downloading GitHub repo braverock/blotter@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/braverock/blotter/zipball/master
Installing blotter
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save  \
  --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
  "C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp8mMwyT/devtools416cfd229e7/braverock-blotter-bdefb02"  \
  --library="C:/Program Files/R/R-3.3.3/library" --install-tests 

* installing *source* package 'blotter' ...
** libs

*** arch - i386
c:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/gcc  -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3/include" -DNDEBUG     -I"d:/Compiler/gcc-4.9.3/local330/include"     -O3 -Wall  -std=gnu99 -mtune=core2 -c calcPosAvgCost.c -o calcPosAvgCost.o
make: sh.exe: Command not found
make: *** [calcPosAvgCost.o] Error 127
Warning: running command 'make -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB="blotter.dll" OBJECTS="calcPosAvgCost.o"' had status 2
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'blotter'
* removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.3.3/library/blotter'
Error: Command failed (1)

Rtools installed and included in the PATH variable:

• C:\RBuildTools\3.3\bin
• C:\RBuildTools\3.3\gcc-4.6.3\bin

Session info:

R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           
[5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] devtools_1.12.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] httr_1.1.0    R6_2.1.2      tools_3.3.3   withr_1.0.2   curl_2.3     
[6] memoise_1.0.0 git2r_0.14.0  digest_0.6.11

Answer 1

Try this:

install.packages("devtools")
require(devtools)
install_github("braverock/FinancialInstrument")
install_github("joshuaulrich/xts")
install_github("braverock/blotter")
install_github("braverock/quantstrat")
install_github("braverock/PerformanceAnalytics")

Answer 2

I had the same problem, even if did not worked with the method above. It gave me the error:

"C:/Users/dstoc/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpiuN8Ii/file53c7224677c/blotter_0.14.7.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status". 

So for future questions: I've installed blotter and quantstrat manually from Rstudio.

1. First of all, I've installed these tools as recommended.

---

install.packages("devtools")
require(devtools)
install_github("braverock/FinancialInstrument")
install_github("joshuaulrich/xts")

1. Then, I went on the console of Rstudio > packages > install. In the option 'install from' I've selected 'package archive file'.

This allows you to browse your file.

3. I've searched for blotter first and then quantstrat and selected the file tar.gz

4. It worked. Don't know if the best way but it worked.