[R] errors when installing new packages

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hello Ying,

This is really a Fedora Core 6 question. But anyway, it appears that you do not have gfortran which comes in the appropriate development package installed.

Assuming you use yum, you find out the RPM using the following

yum provides gfortran 

which will give you the RPM which contains the binary for gfortran.

 gcc-gfortran   4.1.1-51.fc6

If yum says this is installed, then your path is not set right. Otherwise, go ahead and install using 

yum install gcc-gfortran 

as root or with sudo privileges.

HTH.

Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:47:51 -0800 (PST) YI ZHANG <zhangyiosu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> I met a problem when installing new packages on R, my system is linux
> fedora 6.0, the following is output. please help me. Thanks.
> 
> > install.packages('lars')
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> trying URL 'http://www.stathy.com/cran/src/contrib/lars_0.9-5.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-tar' length 188248 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 183Kb
> 
> * Installing *source* package 'lars' ...
> ** libs
> gfortran   -fpic  -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32
> -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -c delcol.f
> -o delcol.o
> make: gfortran: Command not found
> make: *** [delcol.o] Error 127
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'lars'
> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/lars'
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>         /tmp/RtmpxYqqFS/downloaded_packages
> Warning message:
> installation of package 'lars' had non-zero exit status in:
> install.packages("lars") 
> 
> 
> 
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