From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Sat Nov 27 13:37:18 1999
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 13:37:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: portfolio.optim.default, Packages tseries quadprog (PR#348)
In-Reply-To: <199911271030.LAA02408@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9911271333120.26405-100000@auk.stats>

This problem is not to do with quadprog nor tseries but rbind. It is
already solved in the current R-release snapshot, and if you need this
to work under 0.90.0, I suggest you download the current daily
snapshot and build that.


On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 steland@euv-frankfurt-o.de wrote:

> Full_Name: Ansgar Steland
> Version: 0.90.0
> OS: Linux 6.1 FreeBSD 3.2
> Submission from: (NULL) (62.104.196.10)
> 
> 
> Yesterday I downloaded R 0.90.0 and the current versions of some
> packages (tseries, quadprog,...).
> I had no problems to build the program using FreeBSD 3.2 and SuSe Linux 6.1.
> I also re-build all packages required by tseries.
> 
> 
> I checked out portfolio.optim (package: tseries).
> It crashed under FreeBSD 3.2 and SuSe Linux 6.1.
> (More precisely, the example in the documentation of portfolio.optim crashed.)
> 
> Simply reinstalling R 0.65.0 fixed the problem! Now the example works.
> 
> I suppose there is a problem with the code of the solve.QP function 
> of the package quadprog.
> Perhaps it uses internal R functions whose argument lists have changed or sthg.
> like this, I don't know.

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portfolio.optim.default, Packages tseries quadprog (PR#348)
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