[R] Can't install package "glmnet"

[Uwe Ligges]

Liang Zhang wrote:
> I am just wondering how to solve this installation problem.

As I said, ask your admin to install suitable compilers.

Uwe


> Thanks,
> Liang
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> From: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> To: Liang Zhang <zhangl861 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 2:50:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] Can't install package "glmnet"
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> Liang Zhang wrote:
>> Hi, I was trying to install package glmnet in R, but failed and it show such messages:
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>> * Installing *source* package glmnet ...
>>  This package has only been tested with gfortran.
>>  So some checks are needed.
>>  R_HOME is /home/username/R/R-2.9.0
>> Attempting to determine R_ARCH...
>> R_ARCH is
>> Attempting to detect how R was configured for Fortran 90....
>>     Unsupported Fortran 90 compiler or Fortran 90
>>     compilers unavailable! Stop!
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package glmnet
>> * Removing /home/username/R/R-2.9.0/library/glmnet
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>> The downloaded packages are in
>>         /tmp/RtmpwsLWSc/downloaded_packages
>> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages("glmnet") :
>>   installation of package 'glmnet' had non-zero exit status
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>> It seems that it needs fortran 90 complier. What can I do to solve this problem? (I am not the administrator, only a user in the linux system).
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> Ask for a suitable compiler?
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> Uwe Ligges
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>> Thank you very much!
>> Liang
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