[R] How to install package meta on Linux Ubuntu 21?

[Kevin Thorpe]

It looks to me like you do not have the development packages installed in Ubuntu. These should be easy to obtain with a suitable apt-get command, but since I am not a primary Ubuntu user, I do not know the package names.


> On Sep 29, 2021, at 9:46 AM, Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.luigi using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> I have R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10) -- "Kick Things", on an Ubuntu 21
> machine. I am trying to install the package meta but I get the
> following error:
> ```
> ...
> ERROR: dependency ‘RcppEigen’ is not available for package ‘lme4’
> * removing ‘/home/gigiux/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/lme4’
> Warning in install.packages :
>  installation of package ‘lme4’ had non-zero exit status
> ERROR: dependency ‘lme4’ is not available for package ‘meta’
> ```
> I tried to install RcppEigen but:
> ```
> ...
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [/usr/share/R/share/make/shlib.mk:10: RcppEigen.so] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘RcppEigen’
> * removing ‘/home/gigiux/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/RcppEigen’
> Warning in install.packages :
>  installation of package ‘RcppEigen’ had non-zero exit status
> ```
> and lme4 requires RcppEigen.
> I launched
> `$ sudo apt-get install r-cran-rcppeigen`
> installation successful but I got the same error in installing RcppEigen.
> What could be the error?
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Luigi
> 
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Kevin E. Thorpe
Head of Biostatistics,  Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC)
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's
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University of Toronto
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