[R] Can't install package "glmnet"

[Uwe Ligges]

Liang Zhang wrote:
> Hi, I was trying to install package glmnet in R, but failed and it show such messages:
> 
> * Installing *source* package glmnet ...
>  This package has only been tested with gfortran.
>  So some checks are needed.
>  R_HOME is /home/username/R/R-2.9.0
> Attempting to determine R_ARCH...
> R_ARCH is
> Attempting to detect how R was configured for Fortran 90....
>     Unsupported Fortran 90 compiler or Fortran 90
>     compilers unavailable! Stop!
> ERROR: configuration failed for package glmnet
> * Removing /home/username/R/R-2.9.0/library/glmnet
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>         /tmp/RtmpwsLWSc/downloaded_packages
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("glmnet") :
>   installation of package 'glmnet' had non-zero exit status
> 
> 
> It seems that it needs fortran 90 complier. What can I do to solve this problem? (I am not the administrator, only a user in the linux system).

Ask for a suitable compiler?

Uwe Ligges




> Thank you very much!
> Liang
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