[R] Problems with updating R-packages

[Jonathan Baron]

You may need to install glibc-devel or glibc-dev, depending on
how Ubuntu works and depending on how you installed it.  (For
Fedora, these are called "devel".)  You may be missing a great
many "devel" rpms, such as readline-devel, blas-devel, and so on,
which you will need for other packages.

I'm not sure how you are supposed to know this, if it is true,
although you must of course start by looking at the error message
itself, which tells you that the problem is not finding crti.o.

Appendix C1 of the installation and administration guide does
mention the need for "dev(el)," but does not mention glibc in
particular.

When these things happen to me, I search for the missing file, in 
this case crti.o, on Google or on some repository of rpms, such
as http://rpm.pbone.net.  In this case, there is a lot of
discussion on Google about the very error message you got,
although it is probabaly all misleading.

You can also see whether you actually have the file somewhere by
saying

slocate crti.o

If you find it, you can discover which rpm it is part of by using 
its full path, e.g.,

rpm -qf /usr/lib/crti.o

Jon

On 12/31/05 12:27, Petar Milin wrote:
> 
> Dear Helpers,
> I am new in Linux and R, trying to update packages I need in my work,
> but repeatedly I failed for reasons I do not understand.
> First, I use:
> > update.packages()
> Then, I choose nearest mirror and accept update of 'Design' package:
> > Design :
> > Version 2.0-9 installed in /usr/lib/R/site-library
> > Version 2.0-12 available at http://cran.r-mirror.de
> > Update (y/N/c)?  y
> Finally, after successful download, installation starts and fails:
> > trying URL 'http://cran.r-mirror.de/src/contrib/Design_2.0-12.tar.gz'
> > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 329401 bytes
> > opened URL
> > ==================================================
> > downloaded 321Kb
> >
> > * Installing *source* package 'Design' ...
> > ** libs
> > g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c lrmfit.f -o lrmfit.o
> > g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c mlmats.f -o mlmats.o
> > g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c robcovf.f -o robcovf.o
> > gcc -shared  -o Design.so lrmfit.o mlmats.o robcovf.o  -lg2c -lm
> -lgcc_s -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
> > /usr/bin/ld: crti.o: No such file: No such file or directory
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [Design.so] Error 1
> > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Design'
> > ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/site-library/Design'
> > ** Restoring previous '/usr/lib/R/site-library/Design'
> >
> > The downloaded packages are in
> >         /tmp/RtmphbLWxZ/downloaded_packages
> > Warning message:
> > installation of package 'Design' had non-zero exit status in:
> install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
> 
> I am using following R under Ubuntu - Linux:
>  platform = "i386-pc-linux-gnu"
>  arch = "i386"
>  os = "linux-gnu"
>  system = "i386, linux-gnu"
>  major = "2"
>  minor = "2.1"
>  year = "2005"
>  month = "12"
>  day = "20"
>  "svn rev" = "36812"
>  language = "R"
> 
> I would be really thankful if anyone could give me explanation of what I
> am doing wrong and how can I make update.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Petar Milin
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Psychology
> University of Novi Sad
> Serbia and Montenegro
> 
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Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
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