[R] Installing ade4, missing libraries

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please do not hijack a different thread for your question.  In particular 
do not send your question directly to those who asked or helped with other 
questions.

You need libgfortran to build R.  I assume you did a binary install on 
'Linux', but without the details the R posting guide asked you for I can't
tell you exactly what is missing.  Properly set up binary installations 
have a component that brings in all the needed dependencies, e.g. RedHat 
ones have R and R-devel RPMs.

RedHat systems have rpms for gcc-gfortran and libgfortran, but others 
may differ.  Note that the provision might be split: the actual library is 
in libgfortran but the 'devel' part needed to build against it is in 
gcc-gfortran (at least on the version I looked at).


On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Ndoye Souleymane wrote:

>
>
> Dear R users,
>
>
> I have tried to install ade4 package
> under Linux using R CDM INSTALL .
>
> But a the process stoped with an error
> as shown bellowed ?cannot find -lgfortran?.
>
> Is it a required package for Linux. If
> so, Is this package available in RPM ?
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Souleymane N'Doye
>
>
>
> P.S.:
> gcc -shared
> -Bdirect,--hash-stype=both,-Wl,-O1 -o ade4.so adesub.o divsub.o
> phylog.o testamova.o testdim.o testrlq.o tests.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib
> -lRlapack -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lRblas -lgfortran -lm -lgcc_s
> -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [ade4.so] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package
> 'ade4'
> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/ade4'

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