R help - Nov 2013 - unable to install package xts

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and unable to install xts. Here are the info:

usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [xts.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ?xts?
* removing ?/home/jasom/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/xts?
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ?xts? had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ?/tmp/RtmpVH1i1S/downloaded_packages?
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
 [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
LC_ADDRESS=C
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.0.2

Thanks in advance.

CY

Wang Chongyang <wchongyang <at> gmail.com>
writes:
> I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and unable to install xts. Here are the info:
> 
> usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
Do 'sudo apt-get install r-base-dev' to install a set of requirement 
for building packages, which includes among other things the Fortran
library you are missing here.

Dirk

Hello,

You probably should install a Fortran compiler.

Regards,
Pascal




On 12 November 2013 13:40, Wang Chongyang <wchongyang@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and unable to install xts. Here are the info:
>
> usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [xts.so] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘xts’
> * removing ‘/home/jasom/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/xts’
> Warning in install.packages :
>   installation of package ‘xts’ had non-zero exit status
>
> The downloaded source packages are in
>     ‘/tmp/RtmpVH1i1S/downloaded_packages’
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
>  [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> LC_ADDRESS=C
> [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.0.2
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> CY
>
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Pascal Oettli
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