[R] How to install package meta on Linux Ubuntu 21?

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

The recommended way is to install r-base-dev, you probably only have r-base.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Às 17:53 de 29/09/21, Kevin Thorpe escreveu:
> It looks to me like you do not have the development packages installed in Ubuntu. These should be easy to obtain with a suitable apt-get command, but since I am not a primary Ubuntu user, I do not know the package names.
> 
> 
>> On Sep 29, 2021, at 9:46 AM, Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.luigi using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>> I have R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10) -- "Kick Things", on an Ubuntu 21
>> machine. I am trying to install the package meta but I get the
>> following error:
>> ```
>> ...
>> ERROR: dependency ‘RcppEigen’ is not available for package ‘lme4’
>> * removing ‘/home/gigiux/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/lme4’
>> Warning in install.packages :
>>   installation of package ‘lme4’ had non-zero exit status
>> ERROR: dependency ‘lme4’ is not available for package ‘meta’
>> ```
>> I tried to install RcppEigen but:
>> ```
>> ...
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make: *** [/usr/share/R/share/make/shlib.mk:10: RcppEigen.so] Error 1
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘RcppEigen’
>> * removing ‘/home/gigiux/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/RcppEigen’
>> Warning in install.packages :
>>   installation of package ‘RcppEigen’ had non-zero exit status
>> ```
>> and lme4 requires RcppEigen.
>> I launched
>> `$ sudo apt-get install r-cran-rcppeigen`
>> installation successful but I got the same error in installing RcppEigen.
>> What could be the error?
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>> Luigi
>>
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