package 'Rbbg' is not available (for R version 2.15.2)

6
votes

How do I find out for which versions of R this package is available?

> install.packages("Rbbg", repos = "http://r.findata.org")
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://r.findata.org/src/contrib
Warning message:
package 'Rbbg' is not available (for R version 2.15.2)
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rbloomberg
How are we supposed to know? Email the package and/or repository maintainer(s). - Joshua Ulrich
I immediately see at least 3 reasons for posting here: (1) there may be people who know [other than you], (2) there may be a workaround that does not require an answer, and (3) if answered, this can be helpful to others. - user443854
Unfortunately, I agree with Joshua. This is not a programming question. I'm voting to close as off-topic - GSee
I think this would be a more generally interesting question if it applied to formerly-CRAN-available packages: RBbg is a bit of a special case findata.org/rbloomberg - Ben Bolker
Technically it may not be a programming question, but I'm sure glad it was here. So maybe there is some merit to it's existence. - MarkB42

2 Answers

7
votes

You can find out by browsing the bin directory at http://r.findata.org/

You're using Windows, right?

The source code for Rbbg is available on github at https://github.com/johnlaing/blpwrapper

3
votes

Part of the issue here that is non-standard is it's looking for source by default, rather than binary.

Warning in install.packages :
  unable to access index for repository http://r.findata.org/src/contrib

http://r.findata.org/src/ does not exist, but http://r.findata.org/bin does