Cant install blotter package used for quantstrat

Question

I'm trying to use the quantstrat package in R. I have uploaded/installed the package using

install.packages("quantstrat", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") 

However the once I use

require(quanstrat) 

I get the message :

Loading required package: quantstrat Failed with error: ‘package ‘blotter’ required by ‘quantstrat’ could not be found’

I then use

install.packages("blotter", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") 

but get the following message:

Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of C/C++/Fortran: ‘blotter’ These will not be installed

Can anyone offer some suggestion?

Answer 1

I am very late here, but perhaps relevant to note that "blotter" and "quantstrat" are not on CRAN, and several years ago moved to GitHub. The README on the repo (https://github.com/braverock/quantstrat) has more information for installing blotter and more importantly quantstrat.

install.packages("devtools") # if not installed
install.packages("FinancialInstrument") #if not installed
install.packages("PerformanceAnalytics") #if not installed

# next install blotter from GitHub
devtools::install_github("braverock/blotter")
# next install quantstrat from GitHub
devtools::install_github("braverock/quantstrat")