On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Waichler, Scott R wrote: > I am trying to install packages in R-2.2.1 on a Redhat WS4 system. I
What architecture is this? How did you install R? > get the following error messages trying to install, for example, the > akima package: > >> R.version.string > [1] "R version 2.2.1, 2005-12-20" >> install.packages("akima", lib="/usr/lib/R/library", repos = > "http://cran.fhcrc.org/") > . > . > . > gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o akima.so akima433.o akima697.o > akima.new.o idbvip.o idcldp.o idgrid.o idlctn.o idpdrv.o idptip.o > idptli.o idsfft.o idtang.o idxchg.o init.o tripack.o ttidbs.o -lg2c -lm > -lgcc_s -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so when searching > for -lR > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lR > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [akima.so] Error 1 > > I don't understand the -lR flag. What is missing in the system toolkit? It is not a flag: it is an instruction to link against libR. The only way I can see this happening is if you installed a ix86 RPM on a x86_86 system. You can do that and R will run, but you will not be able to build packages out of the box. What I am quite sure about is that R was not built on the system you are running here, since this error would have occurred whilst building R. The solution is to build R from the sources. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html