[R-sig-Geo] spdep installing failure

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, pierluigi de rosa wrote:

> Dear list
> I have some problem installing spdep package on ubuntu 10.10 linux.
> I have installed the packages liblapack-dev and r-base-dev but if i run:
> install.packages("spdep",dep=T)
> i have this error:
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf77blas
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -latlas
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [spdep.so] Errore 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ?spdep?

I would advise against binary installs of R on Debian/Ubuntu if you need 
contributed packages (like gstat, spatstat, splancs, sp, or in fact most 
R-spatial packages with compiled code) unless you are prepared to work 
hard at fulfilling dependencies. Did you install R-base as decribed on 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ ?

My assumption is that you lack most of the dependencies needed to install 
source packages with compiled code. Consider asking on R-sig-debian to 
determine which, or search their archives to see if this is a FAQ:

https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

Hope this helps,

Roger

>
> does any one can help me?
> thanks
> Pierluigi
>
>

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