[R] R lapack routines cannot be loaded

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This was answered this week in 
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2012-November/329946.html

On 23/11/2012 16:05, arysar wrote:
> I usually ran different statistical analysis in R with routines that
> use lapack like gam() lm(), etc but after several updates of libraries
> the following error appears:
>
> library(mgcv)
> This is mgcv 1.7-22. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
>
> model <- with(chlaR,gam(ClorMAX ~ s(DegDay_NM)))
> Error en eigen(St, symmetric = TRUE) :
> lapack routines  cannot be loaded
> Además: Mensajes de aviso perdidos
> In eigen(St, symmetric = TRUE) :
>    unable to load shared object '/usr/lib/R/modules//lapack.so':
>    /usr/lib/R/modules//lapack.so: undefined symbol: dpstrf_
>
> model <- with(chlaR,lm(ClorMAX ~ DegDay_NM))
> summary(model)
> Error en chol2inv(Qr$qr[p1, p1, drop = FALSE]) :
>    lapack routines  cannot be loaded
>
> The version information is:
>
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch i686
> os linux-gnu
> system i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major 2
> minor 15.2
> year 2012
> month 10
> day 26
> svn rev 61015
> language R
>
> I am using Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
>
> Any ideas?
>
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