[R-sig-Debian] (Solved) Having problems with quantreg

[mark engle]

Thanks for all of the help.  I had already installed refblas3.  I installed 
atlas3-sse, which didn't seem to change anything.  I then added 
atlas3-base-dev (seems kind of obvious now) and the quantreg package compiled 
from source and commands from the package are now recognized.  I'm going to 
give it a quick run around the block but I think that will solve everything 
for me.  Thanks again.
-Mark


On Tuesday 22 February 2005 5:16, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 21 February 2005 at 22:42, mark engle wrote:
> | 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.
>
> i)   I know little about MEPIS, and in particular R on MEPIS. Take
> everything with a grain of salt, and if in doubt, test on a proper Debian
> machine. Try to find one somewhere at nevada.edu. It will easier for us to
> get it to work there -- and let's then try to apply what we learned on your
> MEPIS box.
>
> ii)  The (autogenerated) quantreg package I sent you has Depends as
> follows:
>
> edd at chibud:~> dpkg -f
> src/progs/perl/cran2deb/builds/r-cran-quantreg_3.50-0.r2d.1_i386.deb
> Package: r-cran-quantreg
> Version: 3.50-0.r2d.1
> Section: math
> Priority: optional
> Architecture: i386
> Depends: atlas3-base | refblas3 | libblas.so.3, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4),
> libg2c0(>= 1:3.3.4-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3), r-base-core Installed-Size:
> 848
> Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
> Source: quantreg
> Description: GNU R package "Quantile Regression"
>  Quantile  regression and related methods.
>  .
>  Author(s): Roger Koenker <rkoenker at uiuc.edu>
>  Initial R port from Splus by Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>  Date:
>  .
>  URL: http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/research/rq/rq.html
>
>
>      Notice how it says "atlas3-base | refblas3 | libblas.so.3"  What you
>      need is a concrete package that provides the virtual package
>      libblas.so.3.
>
>      You tried atlas3-base, and it didn't work.  The next thing to try
> would be refblas3. Install that and see what it does.
>
>      Afterwards there are the others:
>
> edd at chibud:~> apt-cache showpkg libblas.so.3
> Package: libblas.so.3
> Versions:
>
> Reverse Depends:
>   r-cran-matrix,libblas.so.3
>   r-cran-rscalapack,libblas.so.3
> [...]
> Dependencies:
> Provides:
> Reverse Provides:
> refblas3 1.2-6
> atlas3-sse2 3.6.0-19
> atlas3-sse 3.6.0-19
> atlas3-base 3.6.0-19
> atlas3-3dnow 3.6.0-19
> edd at chibud:~>
>
>      Anyone of those after the "Reverse Provides" will do, but the
>      hardware-optimised ones (atlas3-sse2, -sse2, -3dnow) only makes
>      sense on the matching hardware.
>
> Hope this helps, Dirk
>
> | -Mark
> |
> | engle at unr dot nevada dot edu
> |
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Mark Engle
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