Installation of archived package “prob” not working in R

Question

I'm running R 3.4.2 and R Studio 1.0.153. I want to install the prob package in R. The prob package in an archived file. It is located here . I am trying to install the prob_1.0-0.tar.gz package. I have no problem downloading and opening the package archive file. The code is below, it seems I need to install the fAsianOptions package.

ERROR: dependency 'fAsianOptions' is not available for package 'prob' * removing 'C:/Users/blake_000/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/prob' Warning in install.packages : running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-34~1.2/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\\Users\\blake_000\\Documents\\R\\win-library\\3.4" "C:/Users/BLAKE_~1/GOOGLE~1/Life/CSUEB/FALL20~1/6204-P~1/RCODE~1/prob_1.0-0.tar.gz"' had status 1 Warning in install.packages : installation of package 'C:/Users/BLAKE_~1/GOOGLE~1/Life/CSUEB/FALL20~1/6204-P~1/RCODE~1/prob_1.0-0.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status

Unfortunately, the fAsianOptions package is also archived. It is located here and I downloaded version fAsianOptions_3010.79.tar.gz. There were a number of dependencies but I installed the required packages ( timeDate , timeSeries , etc.)

However, the fAsianOptions package is not installing. The error code reads as follows:

install.packages("C:/Users/blake_000/Google Drive/Life/CSUEB/Fall 2017/6204- Probability/R Code/fAsianOptions_3010.79.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source") Installing package into 'C:/Users/blake_000/Documents/R/win-library/3.4' (as 'lib' is unspecified) * installing source package 'fAsianOptions' ... ** package 'fAsianOptions' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs

*** arch - i386 Warning: running command 'make -f "Makevars" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-34~1.2/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-34~1.2/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB="fAsianOptions.dll" SHLIB_LIBADD='$(FLIBS)' OBJECTS="EBMAsianOptions.o GammaFunctions.o HypergeometricFunctions.o"' had status 127 ERROR: compilation failed for package 'fAsianOptions' * removing 'C:/Users/blake_000/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/fAsianOptions' Warning in install.packages : running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-34~1.2/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\\Users\\blake_000\\Documents\\R\\win-library\\3.4" "C:/Users/BLAKE_~1/GOOGLE~1/Life/CSUEB/FALL20~1/6204-P~1/RCODE~1/fAsianOptions_3010.79.tar.gz"' had status 1 Warning in install.packages : installation of package 'C:/Users/BLAKE_~1/GOOGLE~1/Life/CSUEB/FALL20~1/6204-P~1/RCODE~1/fAsianOptions_3010.79.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status

I'm hoping that someone can help me to install the fAsianOptions dependency so I can install the prob package. Or, if there's an easier way, please let me know!

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I solved it by installing lower version of R -2.9. prob is available in repository for this version.