[R] Error - unable to load shared library

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is an installation problem.  As the configure script checks for the 
presence of that function, has something changed since fastICA was 
installed?  (E.g. have there been system updates?)

I recommend re-installation.

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Youngik Yang wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to use fastICA package but I only get an error message like 
> following.
>
>> library(fastICA)
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
> unable to load shared library '/usr/lib/R/library/fastICA/libs/fastICA.so':
> /usr/lib/R/library/fastICA/libs/fastICA.so: undefined symbol: sgesdd_
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'fastICA'
>
> Here's the session information.
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
> i386-redhat-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;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] biclust_0.5       flexclust_0.99-0  grid_2.7.1        lattice_0.17-8 
> [5] MASS_7.2-42       modeltools_0.2-15 stats4_2.7.1 
>
>
> Any help will be greatly appreaciated.
> Thank you in advance.
> Youngik.
>
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