On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
DE > DE > On 1 March 2010 at 08:08, Anne York wrote: DE > | Hi Michael: DE > | DE > | I already tried reinstalling from with R on cran -- after DE > | checking on the status of LAPACK: DE > | DE > | /usr/bin/R CMD config LAPACK_LIBS DE > | DE > | to which the system responded DE > | DE > | -llapack DE > | DE > | The result was the same. The programs within lme4 failed to DE > | compile because -llapack was not found. The error message DE > | during installation was: DE > | DE > | /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack DE > | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status DE > DE > Do 'dpkg -l | grep lapack' and make sure you see liblapack-dev as installed. DE > DE > Also do 'ldd /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R' and make sure you do _not_ have a depends DE > on Rlapack.so. There was an important change in the Fortran compiler a while DE > back; I no longer anything as ancient as Ubuntu 8.04. It may still date back DE > to those days... DE > DE > Dirk DE > Thanks Dirk. that did the trick. I did not have the development version installed. Re the oldness of Ubuntu 8.04 -- These days I'm staying with LTS versions. Anne _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian