I am trying to use this library: 'stockPortfolio'
After several attempts, I just couldn't get it to install. I just found this.
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/stockPortfolio/index.html
Is it gone because Yahoo shut off it's finance API last year? Is that the bottom line here? I'm getting an error about 'Error in library(stockPortfolio) :
there is no package called ‘stockPortfolio’'. I'm asking, because I am trying to run the code from the link below:
http://economistatlarge.com/portfolio-theory/r-optimized-portfolio/r-code-graph-efficient-frontier
You'd have to email the maintainer to ask.
If you still want to use the last version of the package (no idea if a script using it will work, probably not if the API shut down), you can do remotes::install_version("stockPortfolio", version = "1.2").
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Today I have tried to prepare a new CRAN update for a package and have come across a warning, while performing devtools::check().
Since this warning also occurs without my changes I made to the package, I am assuming this is a new check. Unfortunately I don't really get what I am supposed to do.
This is the error message:
A complete check needs the 'checkbashisms' script.
See section ‘Configure and cleanup’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.
Of course I took a look at the section ‘Configure and cleanup’ as proposed in the warning. But still, I am not sure what to do exactly. I got, there is a checkbashisms Perl script I can download somewhere on the internet (but this alone won't make this message disappear). How shall I integrate this, that the message actually disappears.
Any hints or comments would be extremely helpful to me.
Here is a link to the repo of the package in case you want to clone it to reproduce the error.
I'd need to be able to grab data straight from into R without going through using its GUI. I've found that the RSAP package seems to be exactly what I'm looking for.
I followed the steps recommended by Piers and Alvaro Tejada Galindo (made it work on windows environment) and here is where I'm stuck:
managed to compile the RSAP package
managed to install it
everything is looking in good shape when I run library(RSAP)
whatever i try in the RSAPConnect command, my R session crashes without any log or tools to be able to debug.
Of course I've tried a few combinations of arguments in this command, but in every single case it still crashed without me knowing why. It does not matter whether i enter a valid ashost or just aaa for instance, still crashes...
Here is the code I was thinking would work (of course I added stars in there):
conn <- RSAPConnect(ashost = "*****.****.com", sysnr = "00", client = "410",
user = "*****", passwd = "*********", TRACE = "3")
Has anyone experienced something similar ? I don't even know in which direction to look to try and make this work. In fact I'd have expected some error message like "server could not be reach" for instance should the ashost not be right, but none of that happens.
I'd appreciate any assistance on this.
Thanks ahead for your support.
Kind regards
After some talking with Piers Harding, it appears that the segfault happens because of some code changes between previous version and version 3.x, which I use.
M. Alvaro Tejada Galindo also tried to use RSAP on a windows machine like me, but if you read his post, you'll see that he was using R 2.15.0 at the time.
Unfortunately I do not have the skills to locate these changes and make the required adjustments within the RSAP code.
Piers did confirm though that RSAP is still working great using R latest build for linux.
Lastly, for those like me who struggled to find the NW RFC library, you can find it on GitHub.
If this can help anyone...
Well I thought I'd add this as another answer.
It is possible to code some vba embedded in an excel file to go fetch stuff into SAP. The interesting part is that I just ran into some code to run a specific vba macro from a specific excel file, all from R :
# Open a specific workbook in Excel:
xlApp <- COMCreate("Excel.Application")
xlWbk <- xlApp$Workbooks()$Open("C:\\Excel_file.xlsm")
# Run the macro called "MyMacro"
vxlApp$Run("MyMacro")
# Close the workbook (and save it) and quit the app:
xlWbk$Close(TRUE)
vxlApp$Quit()
# Release resources:
rm(xlWbk, xlApp)
So in the end, if your macro is set up to grab and store the SAP data, all you have to do next is just read this file using XLConnect or any other package as you'd normally do, and you're all set !
I am trying to use the rtweet package but get the following message when trying to use the search_tweets() function like so:
x <- search_tweets(q="football", n=100)
Searching for tweets...
Collected tweets!
Error: data is not a data frame
I couldn't find a lot of instruction on how to use the basic functions of the package, so maybe am I missing an intermediate step in between setting up the app token and grabbing tweets?
I'd currently recommend installing the development version on Github (https://github.com/mkearney/rtweet). Without seeing your session info and script, I wouldn't be able to tell you exactly what the problem is. My guess is something went wrong with your API token/oauth (see the Github link for token instructions) or you're missing a dependency. If it's the latter, you could make sure you have "dplyr" installed, but you're better off with the Github version anyway, which only has a few dependencies.
If that doesn't fix the problem, I'd be curious to know what's going on. The transition from twitteR to rtweet has sped bings up a bit, but the next CRAN release should include a few more functions and a lot more documentation and useful error messages. Until then, feel free to post any issues to Github (I'll try to check on here, too, but it probably won't be as frequent).
I would suggest trying x <- rtweet::search_tweets(q="football", n=100), resulting in:
>dim(x)
[1] 98 35
Additionally:
>class(x)
[1] "data.frame"
My paths and files are as follows ...
E:R/R-2.15.1/library/Rcmdr/
E:R/R-2.15.1/library/RcmdrPlugin.Package/
E:R/R-2.15.1/MyLibrary/RcmdrPlugin.Package.zip
E:R/R-2.15.1/MyLibrary/RcmdrPlugin.Package/
where, in the name RcmdrPlugin.Package, I've used the word 'Package' to represent the name of the actual package being used.
The installation is as described above because (i) I'm not an expert at installing packages, (ii) I couldn't do a direct install from Cran because I wanted to put the package onto a USB stick; and, (iii) at work the Cran server is blocked (sic).
When I start the package from the GUI the Cmdr opens once and quickly closes (I don't know if this is relevant or normal) and opens again. Once open, I can operate the package via the Cmdr interface. It's a very nice package, everything works really well until I want to save the work. Then I get the following error,
Error in obj[i] : object of type 'closure' is not subsettable
I've been in contact with the people who developed (and are still developing) the package and they cannot reproduce the bug.
I strongly suspect that the problem lies in my 'crappy' install and file configuration, rather than with the package.
Can anyone please help me by suggesting how I would undo what I've done and do it properly in view of the constraints list above?
I appreciate that I can use Remove to get rid of the package but I don't want to start tinkering with something without having a greater understanding of what I'm doing.
Lastly, note that is error has been discussed a number of times on this list but not within this particular context.
I've managed to get it to work by following the instructions from here stackoverflow.com/questions/12820189/… where I set repos=NULL after I'd put the package into /MyLibrary/
I have installed a library that contains lot of functions. I want to see calculations done in those functions. How to reach man page of these function in R prompt ?
I only know library(help="name of library") command to seek help.
The shortcut is:
?command
The longer version, for commands such as if for which the shortcut won't work, is:
help("command")
If you need to find a command in installed packages:
help.search("command")
If you need to find a command in all possible packages, the sos library is the ticket.
If you were using the ggplot2 package, go to google, type in something like :
'r ggplot2'
In the results look for the sites that look like this:
cran.r-project.org/package=ggplot2
and start with 'cran.r-project.org/....'
Click on that link and you will see a page for the package. You want to click on either the Reference Manual or for some packages there are Vignettes with more involved explanations and examples. However, the Reference Manual is usually pretty good for examples of how to use the package functions.