Just a few tip, I don't know very much about ubuntu. Relevant is: > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas-3
It means, it doesn't find the library blas-3 (libblas-3). Maybe they are installed on your system but in a non-standard dir. Look around ("locate blas", if updatedb is set on your system); if you find them, a symlink could fix the issue; if not, maybe you need to install atlas or the atlas-dev, something like: http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/dapper/devel/atlas3-sse2-dev (sorry, I don't know if "dapper" == 6.06, but I don't think it can vary so much) Just give a try, and use apt to download all the required libs. Try also to add "dependencies=TRUE" to install.packages(). Does it help? Scionforbai ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.