[R] How to install libisl.so.19 on chromebook?

[Jeff Newmiller]

This question is off topic here (it is not about R... read the Posting Guide... contributed packages are not R), but... it is not AFAIK possible to install R on ChromeOS though you can install it within the "Linux (Beta)" container, which comes by default with the Debian distribution.

Assuming you have not altered this (your confusion about which operating system you are interacting with suggests not?) then go ask this question on R-sig-debian.

FWIW I think the description for this package is deficient... it should mention this system dependency. [1]

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/minpack.lm/index.html

On July 13, 2020 1:35:41 PM PDT, Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.luigi using gmail.com> wrote:
>I am trying to install minpack.lm on R 3.3.3 on a Chromebook. But I
>get this error:
>```
>> install.packages("minpack.lm")
>Installing package into
>‘/home/marongiuluigi/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3’
>(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>trying URL
>'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/minpack.lm_1.2-1.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 43029 bytes (42 KB)
>==================================================
>downloaded 42 KB
>
>* installing *source* package ‘minpack.lm’ ...
>** package ‘minpack.lm’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>** libs
>gfortran   -fpic  -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.3.3=.
>-fstack-protector-strong  -c chkder.f -o chkder.o
>/usr/local/libexec/gcc/x86_64-cros-linux-gnu/8.3.0/f951: error while
>loading shared libraries: libisl.so.19: cannot open shared object
>file: No such file or directory
>/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:155: recipe for target 'chkder.o' failed
>make: *** [chkder.o] Error 1
>ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘minpack.lm’
>* removing
>‘/home/marongiuluigi/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/minpack.lm’
>Warning in install.packages :
>  installation of package ‘minpack.lm’ had non-zero exit status
>```
>I tried to install  libisl.so.19 but:
>```
>$ sudo apt-get install libisl19
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree
>Reading state information... Done
>E: Unable to locate package libisl19
>```
>I downloaded libisl.so.19 for debian, but where shall I place it?
>Is there an easier way to install this library?
>Thank you
>
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