On 23 September 2018 at 09:16, Steve Gutreuter wrote: | Thanks Dirk. That is what I thought, and sessionInfo() returns: | | Matrix products: default | BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas/libblas.so.3.10.3 | LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas/liblapack.so.3.10.3 | | locale: | [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C | [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 | [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 | [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C | [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C | [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C | | so R is indeed aware of a blas. However, packages that require a blas | fail to build and return | | libRblas.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
That is an _error_ in the (unnamed by you) package as _wrongly assumes_ each R installation has a libRblas.so. On Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/... none of the ones using the package do, yet people install a bazillion packages (eg Michael's PPA alone has a few thousand). Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
