Jonathan,
> I tried to re-intall R from Debian "stable", in which R's
version is 1.4.0. And the installation
> of "mvtnorm" works.
Debian's own "stable" R is way older; this must have been a
user-contributed one. And I suspect
that it was build without readline support (see below).
> I then re-installed R yet again from Debian "unstable" (woody),
in which R's version is 1.5.1.
> The installation of "mvtnorm" fails again with the same error
message. Another package that
> failed with the same error message is "mclust".
>
> >From these phenomena, I suspect that the problem is with the Debian
version of R 1.5.1. Can someone
> point out a fix?
[...]
> > Hi, I want to thank you in advance for any assistance you may give: I
> > had
> > trouble installing the mvtnorm package. Here is the error message I
> > encountered:
> >
> > R CMD INSTALL mvtnorm
> > * Installing *source* package 'mvtnorm' ...
> > ** libs
> > gcc -shared -o mvtnorm.so mvt.o
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4
> > -lreadline -ldl -lncurses -lg2c-pic -lm -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is a pretty clear message: you need to install the matching -dev package
for readline so that you can /compile and link/ against readline, currently you
can
only run pre-built programs using readline.
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [mvtnorm.so] Error 1
> > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'mvtnorm'
Dirk
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