[R] Installing quantreg package under Ubuntu

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Ben Bolker wrote:
> 
> 
> Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
>> Does any have installation instructions for this?  When I run 
>> install.packages('quantreg') I get:
>>
>> gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o quantreg.so akj.o boot.o brute.o chlfct.o 
>> cholesky.o combos.o crq.o crqfnb.o dsel05.o etime.o extract.o idmin.o 
>> iswap.o kuantile.o mcmb.o penalty.o powell.o rls.o rq0.o rq1.o rqbr.o 
>> rqfn.o rqfnb.o rqfnc.o sparskit2.o srqfn.o srqfnc.o srtpai.o -llapack 
>> -lblas -lgfortran -lm -lgfortran -lm -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack
>>
>>
>>  > sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
>> i486-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>
> 
> http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation:debian
> 
> suggests
> 
> (sudo) apt-get install r-base-dev

Ben,

Installing r-base-dev was the key.  Thanks!  Now 
install.packages('quantreg') works perfectly.

Frank

> 
> or perhaps
> 
> sudo apt-get build-dep r-base
> 
> also see
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
> 
> for instructions on access to more up-to-date
> repositories, the most salient of which are:
> ====================
> add
> 
>    deb http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu jaunty/
> 
> (or hardy, intrepid, etc.) to /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> The Ubuntu archives on CRAN are signed with the key of "Vincent Goulet
> <vincent.goulet at act.ulaval.ca>" with key ID E2A11821. You can fetch this key
> with
> 
>    gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key E2A11821
> 
> and then feed it to apt-key with
> 
>    gpg -a --export E2A11821 | sudo apt-key add -
> 
> 


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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University