[R] problem with lapack.so under Debian Sid

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Christian Fiebach wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> I am sorry to bother you with this.
> 
> I just upgraded yesterday to R 2.0.0 (using apt-get under Debian Sid), and
> now have problems running e.g., summary(lm(...))
> 
> the lm is calculated, but the summary statement gives me the following 
> error:
> 
> Error in La.chol2inv(x, size) : lapack routines cannot be loaded
> In addition: Warning message:
> unable to load shared library "/usr/lob/R/modules/lapack.so":
>    /usr/lib/Pentium4_SSE2_512KB/liblapack.so.3: undefined symbol: ieeeck_
> 
> I searched through the archives, but unfortunately I am just not 
> LINUX-knowledgeable
> enough to understand the discussions concerning the algebra libraries.
> 
> Following an older mail to this list, I did
> ldd /usr/lib/R/modules/lapack.so
> everything looks fine except probably for the first line, which reads
> libR.so => not found

Use R CMD ldd /usr/lib/R/modules/lapack.so to get an accurate picture.

I think you need to ask this on a Debian list.  The R developers do not 
recommend the use of an external Lapack library (and the Debian ones have 
had `patches' that were incorrect before now).  (See the discussion in the 
R-admin manual.)  In this case I guess that it has not been linked against 
the right set of external libraries for your particular machine.

> I would appreciate any hints on how to fix this problem!

Should work if you build R from the sources with the default options.

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