From: A.J. Rossini (rossini@blindglobe.net)
Date: Wed 10 Jul 2002 - 03:56:53 EST
Message-id: <87ptxwvl7e.fsf@jeeves.blindglobe.net>
>>>>> "jonathan" == jonathan li <jonathan_li@agilent.com> writes:
jonathan> Hi,
jonathan> Thank you for the tip.
jonathan> I tried to re-intall R from Debian "stable", in which R's version is 1.4.0. And the installation
jonathan> of "mvtnorm" works.
jonathan> I then re-installed R yet again from Debian "unstable" (woody), in which R's version is 1.5.1.
jonathan> The installation of "mvtnorm" fails again with the same error message. Another package that
jonathan> failed with the same error message is "mclust".
>> From these phenomena, I suspect that the problem is with the Debian version of R 1.5.1. Can someone
jonathan> point out a fix?
It's not Debian:
> install.packages("mvtnorm","/home/faculty/rossini/lib/R")
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 78331 bytes
opened URL
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.......... .......... ......
downloaded 76Kb
trying URL
`http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/mvtnorm_0.5-5.tar.gz'
Content type `application/x-tar' length 23578 bytes
opened URL
.......... .......... ...
downloaded 23Kb
* Installing *source* package 'mvtnorm' ...
** libs
g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c mvt.f -o mvt.o
gcc -shared -o mvtnorm.so mvt.o
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4 -lreadli
ne -ldl -lncurses -lg2c-pic -lm -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR
** R
** help
>>> Building/Updating help pages for package `mvtnorm'
Formats: text html latex example
Mvnorm text html latex example
mvtnorm-internal text html latex
pmvnorm text html latex example
pmvt text html latex example
* DONE (mvtnorm)
* DONE (INSTALL)
Delete downloaded files (y/N)? u
The packages are in /tmp/RinstdirR552dS66334873
>
I think you might need the readline devel package. Maybe try
apt-get install libreadline4-dev
to install things? (or you might need
apt-get install libreadline4
?)
best,
-toniy
jonathan> Thanks in advance.
jonathan> Regards,
jonathan> Jonathan
jonathan> Jonathan Qiang Li, Ph.D.
jonathan> Statistician
jonathan> Agilent Labs
jonathan> Palo Alto, CA
jonathan> USA
jonathan> -----Original Message-----
jonathan> From: Torsten Hothorn [mailto:Torsten.Hothorn@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de]
jonathan> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 11:55 PM
jonathan> To: Jonathan Li
jonathan> Subject: Re: mvtnorm package installation failure
>> Hi, I want to thank you in advance for any assistance you may give: I
>> had
>> trouble installing the mvtnorm package. Here is the error message I
>> encountered:
>>
>> R CMD INSTALL mvtnorm
>> * Installing *source* package 'mvtnorm' ...
>> ** libs
>> gcc -shared -o mvtnorm.so mvt.o -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4
>> -lreadline -ldl -lncurses -lg2c-pic -lm -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make: *** [mvtnorm.so] Error 1
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'mvtnorm'
>>
>> I am using Debian Linux 2.20 on a Intel machine. R version is 1.5.0.
>> I have not seen this kind of error before. Any hint is highly
>> appreciated!
jonathan> looks like an R installation problem. did you compile R yourself and what
jonathan> did `make check' say?
jonathan> Torsten
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Q. Li, PhD
>> Agilent Technologies Laboratory
>> Palo Alto, California, USA
>>
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