R SIG Debian - Sep 2018 - libRblas.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

For example,

install.packages("emplik")

is failing with: libRblas.so: cannot open shared object file: No such 
file or directory

As Dirk pointed out, this is likely an error in the emplik package,


Steve



On 09/23/2018 09:57 AM, Ista Zahn wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 4:08 PM Steve Gutreuter <sgutreuter at
gmail.com> wrote:
>> R 3.5.1 is installed under Linux Mint 19 from binaries r-base and
>> r-base-dev from ubuntu bionic-cran35.  Mysteriously, packages using
>> libRblas cannot be compiled.  I get: libRblas.so: cannot open shared
>> object file: No such file or directory.  And indeed, I find no
libRblas.so.
>>
>> Any ideas about how to fix this?
> Can you show use an example? That is, what code did you run exactly,
> and what was the error, exactly?
>
> --Ista
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>>
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On 23 September 2018 at 10:09, Steve Gutreuter wrote:
| For example,
| 
| install.packages("emplik")
| 
| is failing with: libRblas.so: cannot open shared object file: No such 
| file or directory
| 
| As Dirk pointed out, this is likely an error in the emplik package,

I made one educated guess. Now we have more information and can update:

- this is a CRAN package so everybody can check its status:
    https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_emplik.html
  turns out it is picture perfect

- this is a CRAN package so everybody can look at its file on the mirror:
    https://github.com/cran/emplik/tree/master/src
  it does not set a link instruction

so we conclude that the error is local to your system.  _Something_ is going
you did not tell us, so I have to guess some more:

- maybe you built another version of R and it sits in your $PATH before the
  packaged version

- maybe you set build environment versions

Ball back in your court.

Dirk

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

Problem solved, but don't know how.? The only error or warning from 
install.packages("emplik") was about libRblas.? However, some other 
packages failed to update for lack of other R packages. Once I fixed 
those other R dependencies, all of the messages about the absence of 
libRblas.so also vanished.

Many thanks for your patience and help.

Steve



On 09/23/2018 10:31 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 23 September 2018 at 10:09, Steve Gutreuter wrote:
> | For example,
> |
> | install.packages("emplik")
> |
> | is failing with: libRblas.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> | file or directory
> |
> | As Dirk pointed out, this is likely an error in the emplik package,
>
> I made one educated guess. Now we have more information and can update:
>
> - this is a CRAN package so everybody can check its status:
>      https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_emplik.html
>    turns out it is picture perfect
>
> - this is a CRAN package so everybody can look at its file on the mirror:
>      https://github.com/cran/emplik/tree/master/src
>    it does not set a link instruction
>
> so we conclude that the error is local to your system.  _Something_ is
going
> you did not tell us, so I have to guess some more:
>
> - maybe you built another version of R and it sits in your $PATH before the
>    packaged version
>
> - maybe you set build environment versions
>
> Ball back in your court.
>
> Dirk
>