[R-sig-Debian] Having problems with quantreg

[mark engle]

Hi All,
     I'm still having significantly difficulty getting the quantreg library 
running in R.  I'm running R on MEPIS using the debs created by Dirk 
Eddelbuettel and placed in apt testing.  When I try to install quantreg using 
the install.packages() function it fails with:  /usr/bin/ld: cannot find 
-lblas-3

Dirk was nice enough to send me a .deb for quantreg which installs without 
error.  However, when I try to run the rq command after entering 
library(quantreg), I get: Error: Object "rq" not found

I've tried reinstalling atlas3-base (as Douglas Bates suggested), every R 
package on my machine and ripping out every config file I can find and 
re-installing to no avail.    I am a true beginner at R and could certainly 
be doing something or just be missing a package.  If anyone has anymore 
ideas, I'd love to hear them.  Thanks for the help.
-Mark

engle at unr dot nevada dot edu