[R] lapack in R 2.11.1 (Ubuntu 10.04.1)

[Douglas Bates]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Matias Salibian-Barrera
<msalibian at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to install the package RcppArmadillo in my R 2.11.1 which I installed
> and regularly update via Ubuntu's repositories.
>
>
> When I try to install RcppArmadillo from CRAN I get:
>
>> install.packages('RcppArmadillo', lib='~/myRlibs')
> [...]
> g++ -shared -o RcppArmadillo.so RcppArmadillo.o fastLm.o
> -L/home/matias/myRlibs/Rcpp/lib -lRcpp  -Wl,-rpath,/home/matias/myRlibs/Rcpp/lib
> -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm  -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
>
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack
>
> I believe this means I don't have lapack available to link to.
>
> Does anybody know how I can fix this? I really only need to have RcppArmadillo
> running.
>
>
> I'm not a power user. I'm running:
>
>> version
>               _
> platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i486
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i486, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          11.1
> year           2010
> month          05
> day            31
> svn rev        52157
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>
> and
>
> matias at thecomputer:~$ cat /etc/issue
> Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.

Did you compile R or did you install the Ubuntu package from the CRAN
archives?  Installing the package from CRAN will automatically install
the Lapack library.  See the instructions at
http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/