Dear All,
As suggested in the reply from Dirk Eddelbuettel to my post to R-dev I
am reposting here as the problem still persists. Please see my post to
R-dev under same heading for additional description if needed.
In summary I am starting from a new installation of Ubuntu 10.10 as the
single operating system on a reformatted disk with just the OS, ESS and
emacs installed before installing R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) in
accordance with the instructions on the CRAN site. All went well until I
started to install the additional packages I use and found multiple
cases of (e.g. for lme4) of the following compilation error:
gcc -shared -o lme4.so init.o lmer.o local_stubs.o -llapack -lf77blas
-latlas -lgfortran -lm -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf77blas
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -latlas
---------BUT
[ 48 ] <wow> (ron) /usr/bin/R CMD config LAPACK_LIBS
-llapack
---------AND
<wow> (ron) dpkg -l | grep lapack
ii liblapack-dev 3.2.1-8
library of linear algebra routines 3 - static version
ii liblapack3gf 3.2.1-8
library of linear algebra routines 3 - shared version
[ 44 ] <wow> (ron)
Based on Dirk's suggestion:
"I think you were pretty close by looking at lapack-dev and blas-dev,
but you
missed atlas-dev. Simply do
$ sudo apt-get install r-base-dev "
I had already done this but tried again with indication that the latest
version is already installed. Taking the clue that atlas-dev may be
missing I tried
<wow> (ron) dpkg -l | grep atlas
ii libatlas3gf-base 3.2.1-8
Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, generic shared
So don't see an atlas-dev and r-base-dev does not seem to be installing
it for me. The following does not help me either:
<wow> (ron) sudo apt-get install atlas-dev
[sudo] password for ron:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package atlas-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'atlas-dev' has no installation candidate
and does seem to verify the fact that another package need it.
So I am still at a loss as to where to go from here. Sorry for the
multiple postings. I hope this is finally the right list!
Thank you all for your consideration.
Ron Burns
--
R. R. Burns
Physicist (Retired)
Oceanside, CA
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