[R-pkg-devel] Windows load error installing package

[J C Nash]

Thanks Dirk:

It looks like R_Windows isn't setting any BLAS or LAPACK. Here is the output from sessionInfo() on
my Win10 (VirtualBox VM) and Linux Mint 20.1 systems. However, I've not got any idea how to fix
this.

JN


>> sessionInfo()
> R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19042)
> 
> Matrix products: default
> 
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_4.1.0
>>
> 
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Linux Mint 20.1
> 
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3
> LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/liblapack.so.3
> 
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8    
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8   
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_4.1.0
>> 


On 2021-06-10 9:37 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 10 June 2021 at 09:22, J C Nash wrote:
> | Thanks to help from Duncan Murdoch, we have extracted the nls() functionality to a package nlspkg and are building
> | an nlsalt package. We can then run nlspkg::AFunction() and nlsalt::AFunction() in a single script to compare.
> | This works great in Linux, with the packages building and installing under the command line or in Rstudio.
> | But in Windows CMD the "R CMD build" works, but "R CMD INSTALL" gives a number of errors of the type
> | 
> | *** arch - i386
> | C:/RBuildTools/4.0/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.3.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
> | loessf.o:loessf.f:(.text+0x650): undefined reference to `idamax_'
> | 
> | The reference is to a BLAS function, so I am fairly certain there is some failed pointer, possibly a
> | makevars.win entry, that we need. So far my searches and (possibly silly) attempts to provide links
> | have failed.
> | 
> | Can anyone provide suggestions?
> 
> Guess: On Linux you use a complete (external) BLAS, on Windows you use the
> (subset) BLAS provided by R which may not have the desired function rending
> your approach less portable.  See what sessionInfo() has to say on both.
> 
> Dirk
>