[Rcpp-devel] [RcppArmadillo] Install problem

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 11 January 2013 at 12:04, Alan Coppola wrote:
| I've been using Rcpp for a while now, through Rstudio, and like it.
| I now have the need to use RcppArmadillo, and have been trying to 
| install it through Rstudio.
| Somehow, LAPACK_LIBS, BLAS_LIBS, and FLIBS from the Makevars file are 
| not getting filled in properly.

You misunderstood a clear error message. See below:

| I don't understand enough about installing R packages to know what was 
| supposed fill in thos variables.
| 
| Everything is up to date, and I uninstalled/reinstalled R-base and 
| R-dev, as was mentioned
| in a problem report similar to mine from a year ago...any ideas?
| alan
| 
| -------------- lsb_release -a output----
| Distributor ID: Ubuntu
| Description: Ubuntu 11.10
| Release: 11.10
| Codename: oneiric
| 
| 
| 
| 
| ------------------Rstudio output-----------------------
|  > install.packages("RcppArmadillo")
| Installing package(s) into ‘/home/enacor/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15’
| (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
| trying URL 'http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/RcppArmadillo_0.3.6.1.tar.gz'
| Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 753168 bytes (735 Kb)
| opened URL
| ==================================================
| downloaded 735 Kb
| 
| * installing *source* package ‘RcppArmadillo’ ...
| ** package ‘RcppArmadillo’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
| ** libs
| g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG 
| -I"/home/enacor/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/Rcpp/include" 
| -I../inst/include -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c RcppArmadillo.cpp -o RcppArmadillo.o
| g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG 
| -I"/home/enacor/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/Rcpp/include" 
| -I../inst/include -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c fastLm.cpp -o fastLm.o
| g++ -shared -o RcppArmadillo.so RcppArmadillo.o fastLm.o 
| -L/home/enacor/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/Rcpp/lib -lRcpp 
| -Wl,-rpath,/home/enacor/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/Rcpp/lib 
| -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
| /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
| /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lquadmath

The linker complains.

Do 'sudo apt-get install r-base-dev' which should take care of it.

It's a FAQ, and googling for the string of the error message is often much
quicker than posting here.

Dirk


| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| make: *** [RcppArmadillo.so] Error 1
| ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘RcppArmadillo’
| * removing ‘/home/enacor/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/RcppArmadillo’
| Warning in install.packages :
| installation of package ‘RcppArmadillo’ had non-zero exit status
| 
| The downloaded source packages are in
| ‘/tmp/Rtmp5YjUpn/downloaded_packages’
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