[GSoC-PortA] ROI status

[Brian G. Peterson]

Stefan,

Thank you.  We'll certainly get the latest from R-Forge and test.  We 
have a reasonably complete set of demo and test scripts at this point, 
which hopefully would uncover any problems.

Regards,

Brian

n 11/26/2013 07:29 AM, Stefan Theussl wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> I recently improved ROI and their plugins. I will submit them to CRAN
> today or tomorrow. It would be great if you checked the current version
> of ROI and plugins (glpk, symphony, quadprog) with your framework. It
> would help me a lot in testing it.
>
> Anyway, I am about to implement further tests right now. But as always:
> the more the better ...
>
> Best,
> st
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Stefan Theussl
> <stefan.theussl at gmail.com <mailto:stefan.theussl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Brian,
>
>     thanks, all good here. How are you?
>
>     ROI is definitely not to be abandoned. Nevertheless, I have to admit
>     that I have not worked on it for a longer time due to time
>     constraints. Only an update of Rglpk made it to CRAN some time ago.
>
>     Anyway, I just put the ROI plugin to quadprog on top of my TODO
>     list. I am looking forward to using PortfolioAnalytics myself and I
>     appreciate the plan, that ROI might be part of it.
>
>     Best,
>     Stefan
>
>
>     On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Brian G. Peterson
>     <brian at braverock.com <mailto:brian at braverock.com>> wrote:
>
>         Stefan,
>
>         I hope things are well with you.
>
>         I'm writing to ask what your plans are longer term for ROI.
>
>         Kurt indicated that you are still working on it, but there have
>         been almost no changes in the last year.
>
>         Specifically, the change that we worked on with you a year ago
>         for the quadprog plugin has not made it to CRAN.
>
>         More generally, if ROI is to be abandoned, I need to start
>         planning for significant changes to PortfolioAnalytics before I
>         send it to CRAN, as we now use ROI almost exclusively for
>         solvers that are supported by ROI.
>
>         I think the framework is valuable, and I hope that you can move
>         the quadprog fix to CRAN, and let me know how the package is to
>         be maintained long-term.
>
>         Best Regards,
>
>         Brian
>
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>
>


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