[R] Problems installing Packages

[Jeff Newmiller]

The error says you are missing the BLAS library... so install it?
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Sven D <sduve at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hello, 
>
>I am going through Zhao's RDataMining PDF, and to redo all the graphics
>on
>my computer, I need several packages, 'coin' and 'party' to name two.
>
>I get the following error:
>
>> install.packages("coin")
>Installing package(s) into
>‘/home/sven/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15’
>(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>trying URL
>'http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/src/contrib/coin_1.0-21.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 903944 bytes (882 Kb)
>opened URL
>==================================================
>downloaded 882 Kb
>
>* installing *source* package ‘coin’ ...
>** package ‘coin’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>** libs
>gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG      -fpic  -O3 -pipe 
>-g  -c
>Classes.c -o Classes.o
>gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG      -fpic  -O3 -pipe 
>-g  -c
>Helpers.c -o Helpers.o
>gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG      -fpic  -O3 -pipe 
>-g  -c
>LinearStatistic.c -o LinearStatistic.o
>gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG      -fpic  -O3 -pipe 
>-g  -c
>StreitbergRoehmel.c -o StreitbergRoehmel.o
>gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG      -fpic  -O3 -pipe 
>-g  -c
>vandeWiel.c -o vandeWiel.o
>gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o coin.so Classes.o Helpers.o LinearStatistic.o
>StreitbergRoehmel.o vandeWiel.o -lblas -lgfortran -lm -L/usr/lib/R/lib
>-lR
>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>make: *** [coin.so] Error 1
>ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘coin’
>* removing ‘/home/sven/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/coin’
>Warning in install.packages :
>  installation of package ‘coin’ had non-zero exit status
>
>The downloaded source packages are in
>	‘/tmp/RtmpYPqZgS/downloaded_packages’
>
>My system session info is as follows:
>
>R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
>Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
>locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
> [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8    
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8   
> [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C                 
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
>[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
>
>attached base packages:
>[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
>[7] base     
>
>loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>[1] tools_2.15.0
>
>
>I do not have a problem loading it on my windows PC. Anyone having
>similar
>experience, and perhaps know the solution? Furthermore, package
>'RHTMLForms'
>from Omegahat I could only install on the ubuntu computer and not on
>the
>windows computer. Anyone know the reason why? Perhaps this is not even
>an R
>question, but any hint would be great.
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
>Sven
>
>
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