It looks to me like you do not have the development packages installed in
Ubuntu. These should be easy to obtain with a suitable apt-get command, but
since I am not a primary Ubuntu user, I do not know the package names.
> On Sep 29, 2021, at 9:46 AM, Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.luigi at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
> I have R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10) -- "Kick Things", on an
Ubuntu 21
> machine. I am trying to install the package meta but I get the
> following error:
> ```
> ...
> ERROR: dependency ?RcppEigen? is not available for package ?lme4?
> * removing ?/home/gigiux/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/lme4?
> Warning in install.packages :
> installation of package ?lme4? had non-zero exit status
> ERROR: dependency ?lme4? is not available for package ?meta?
> ```
> I tried to install RcppEigen but:
> ```
> ...
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [/usr/share/R/share/make/shlib.mk:10: RcppEigen.so] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ?RcppEigen?
> * removing ?/home/gigiux/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/RcppEigen?
> Warning in install.packages :
> installation of package ?RcppEigen? had non-zero exit status
> ```
> and lme4 requires RcppEigen.
> I launched
> `$ sudo apt-get install r-cran-rcppeigen`
> installation successful but I got the same error in installing RcppEigen.
> What could be the error?
> --
> Best regards,
> Luigi
>
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