R help - Sep 2010 - lapack in R 2.11.1 (Ubuntu 10.04.1)

Hi there,

I'm trying to install the package RcppArmadillo in my R 2.11.1 which I
installed
and regularly update via Ubuntu's repositories. 


When I try to install RcppArmadillo from CRAN I get:
> install.packages('RcppArmadillo', lib='~/myRlibs')
[...]
g++ -shared -o RcppArmadillo.so RcppArmadillo.o fastLm.o  
-L/home/matias/myRlibs/Rcpp/lib -lRcpp  -Wl,-rpath,/home/matias/myRlibs/Rcpp/lib
-llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm  -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR 


/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack 

I believe this means I don't have lapack available to link to. 

Does anybody know how I can fix this? I really only need to have RcppArmadillo 
running. 


I'm not a power user. I'm running:
> version
               _                            
platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu            
arch           i486                         
os             linux-gnu                    
system         i486, linux-gnu              
status                                      
major          2                            
minor          11.1                         
year           2010                         
month          05                           
day            31                           
svn rev        52157                        
language       R                            
version.string R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)

and

matias at thecomputer:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l

Thanks a lot in advance.

Matias

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Matias Salibian-Barrera
<msalibian at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to install the package RcppArmadillo in my R 2.11.1 which I
installed
> and regularly update via Ubuntu's repositories.
>
>
> When I try to install RcppArmadillo from CRAN I get:
>
>> install.packages('RcppArmadillo', lib='~/myRlibs')
> [...]
> g++ -shared -o RcppArmadillo.so RcppArmadillo.o fastLm.o
> -L/home/matias/myRlibs/Rcpp/lib -lRcpp
?-Wl,-rpath,/home/matias/myRlibs/Rcpp/lib
> -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm ?-L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
>
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack
>
> I believe this means I don't have lapack available to link to.
>
> Does anybody know how I can fix this? I really only need to have
RcppArmadillo
> running.
>
>
> I'm not a power user. I'm running:
>
>> version
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? _
> platform ? ? ? i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch ? ? ? ? ? i486
> os ? ? ? ? ? ? linux-gnu
> system ? ? ? ? i486, linux-gnu
> status
> major ? ? ? ? ?2
> minor ? ? ? ? ?11.1
> year ? ? ? ? ? 2010
> month ? ? ? ? ?05
> day ? ? ? ? ? ?31
> svn rev ? ? ? ?52157
> language ? ? ? R
> version.string R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>
> and
>
> matias at thecomputer:~$ cat /etc/issue
> Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
Did you compile R or did you install the Ubuntu package from the CRAN
archives?  Installing the package from CRAN will automatically install
the Lapack library.  See the instructions at
http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

On 15 September 2010 at 13:48, Matias Salibian-Barrera wrote:
| I'm trying to install the package RcppArmadillo in my R 2.11.1 which I
installed
| and regularly update via Ubuntu's repositories. 

We welcome questions on Rcpp et al on the rcpp-devel list.  There is also the
r-sig-debian list for Debian/Ubuntu questions.  

| When I try to install RcppArmadillo from CRAN I get:
| 
| > install.packages('RcppArmadillo', lib='~/myRlibs')
| [...]
| g++ -shared -o RcppArmadillo.so RcppArmadillo.o fastLm.o  
| -L/home/matias/myRlibs/Rcpp/lib -lRcpp 
-Wl,-rpath,/home/matias/myRlibs/Rcpp/lib
| -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm  -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR 
| 
| 
| /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack 
| 
| I believe this means I don't have lapack available to link to. 

You have the run-time, but not the dev package.  Do

    $ sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

and it will take of this.

Dirk

-- 
Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com