Does any one know how can I get the 'quantstrat' package in R in order to work for 4.0 version?

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I tried with devtools … this way…



library(devtools) # need devtools to use install_github

install_github("braverock/quantstrat")



to make 100% sure that I can get it by a github for it works in my R 4.0 version but does not work.

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Hello Karen,



Can you elaborate on the error it gives you when you try to use the module? 

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Hello Akshay, sure!



Above the message that shows up in the console window:



> install.packages("quantstrat")

WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:



RTools: Toolchains for building R and R packages from source on Windows

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/HP/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’

(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

Warning in install.packages :

  package ‘quantstrat’ is not available (for R version 4.0.0)

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I also tried this way:



install.packages("devtools")

library(devtools) # need devtools to use install_github

install_github("braverock/quantstrat")





but the errors that pops up are:



> install_github("braverock/quantstrat")

WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages, but the version of Rtools previously installed in C:/rtools40 has been deleted.



Please download and install Rtools custom from RTools: Toolchains for building R and R packages from source on Windows

Downloading GitHub repo braverock/quantstrat@master

Error: Failed to install 'quantstrat' from GitHub:

  Could not find tools necessary to compile a package

Call pkgbuild::check_build_tools(debug = TRUE) to diagnose the problem.





 

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Hello Karen,



To be able to help you well. I would like to know the operating system you're using. The dependency libraries to build and install for this to work will need commands of the particular package manager you use.Thanks. 

 

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R has one of the best package management named CRAN. Unfortunately going to non-traditional install process can be tricky (arguably still better than Python).



I think what you are suffering from is a very misguiding error message. Do the following and you probably will be good


  1. close RStudio and install R 4.0.0 and Rtools 40 for your platform (I think you have already done it)
  2. make sure Rtools in your path (add rtools40 top directory, as well as mingw_64\bin, assuming you are on 64bit windows)
  3. make sure 'pkgbuild' is installed (else open RStudio -> Tools -> Install package and install)
  4. install "devtools" (same as above)
  5. load devtools (library(devtools) or require(devtools))
  6. install_github your packages as you do usually (for quantstart, I would do install_github("braverock/blotter"), followed by install_github("braverock/quantstrat"))



    You should be good to go. If not, open RGUI (not RStudio) and run pkgbuild::check_build_tools(debug = TRUE) and let us know the output.