[R] Conflict between Accelerate BLAS and package 'stats'

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 21/10/2013 04:18, David Degras wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> After successfully setting up the Accelerate BLAS library via

'UNsucessfully' ...

This is a question for R-sig-MAC: see the posting guide, and you need to 
ask how to achieve whatever you are trying to do, rather than tell us 
how you broke your R.  (My guess is that the advice you need is in the 
'R Installation and Administration Manual'.)

>
> /cd /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib
> ln -sf
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/Current/libBLAS.dylib
> libRblas.dylib
> /
>
> I restarted R (version 3.0.1) and got the following error message:
>
> /Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>    unable to load shared object
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/library/stats/libs/stats.so':
>
> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/library/stats/libs/stats.so,
> 6): Symbol not found: _lsame_
>    Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
>    Expected in:
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
>   in
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
> During startup - Warning message:
> package 'stats' in options("defaultPackages") was not found /
>
> Can anybody help?
>
> Below is the system info for my iMac:
>
> /sysname   "Darwin"
> release     "10.8.0"
> version
> "Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011;
> root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386"
> machine    "i386"
> /
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> David Degras
> Department of Mathematical Sciences
> DePaul University
>
>
>
>
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