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

[Luigi Marongiu]

Yep, that was it! Now it worked. Thanks

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 9:13 PM Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas using sapo.pt> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The recommended way is to install r-base-dev, you probably only have r-base.
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Às 17:53 de 29/09/21, Kevin Thorpe escreveu:
> > 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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Best regards,
Luigi