[R-sig-Debian] Installation of R package gsl and its corresponding GSL library
Dirk Eddelbuettel
edd at debian.org
Tue Jan 6 12:20:12 CET 2009
On 6 January 2009 at 14:45, Matthieu Stigler wrote:
| I want to install the R package gsl, which is a wrapper to the library GSL.
|
| Installation fails as it seems that I did not install the right GSL library:
|
| * Installing *source* package 'gsl' ...
| checking for gcc... gcc
| checking for C compiler default output... a.out
| checking whether the C compiler works... yes
| checking whether we are cross compiling... no
| checking for suffix of executables...
| checking for suffix of object files... o
| checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
| checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
| checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
| checking for gsl_sf_airy_Ai_e in -lgsl... no
| configure: error: Cannot find Gnu Scientific Library.
|
| However, I installed both gsl-bin and libgsl0ldbl with apt-get. Do you
| see which library I should install?
You need to install the -dev package libgsl0-dev.
| Could the package gsl be added to
| the usefull collection of R packages accessible from the debian repos?
There are 1500 CRAN packages but only a handful of volunteer maintainers.
Dirk
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