Hello, everybody: I just installed the latest version of R and trying to install the packages. The eriee thing is: while for some package, it works fine, for others, it won't install. Here is one of the similar error messages from one failed installation. Can anybody take a look and figure out a solution? I sense it is something related to the shared library. Jacob install.packages("aws") trying URL 'http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/src/contrib/aws_1.3-2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 52774 bytes opened URL ================================================== downloaded 51Kb * Installing *source* package 'aws' ... ** libs g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c aws.f -o aws.o g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c dgemm.f -o dgemm.o g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c eaws.f -o eaws.o g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c hawsuni.f -o hawsuni.o g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c laws.f -o laws.o gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o aws.so aws.o dgemm.o eaws.o hawsuni.o laws.o -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s -L/usr/home/jacob/R-2.2.1/lib -lR /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../x86_64-suse- linux /bin/ld: cannot find -lR collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [aws.so] Error 1 ERROR: compilation failed for package 'aws' ** Removing '/usr/home/jacob/R-2.2.1/library/aws' The downloaded packages are in /tmp/Rtmpe25813/downloaded_packages Warning message: installation of package 'aws' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages("aws") > sessionInfo() R version 2.2.1, 2005-12-20, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu attached base packages: [1] "tools" "splines" "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" [7] "utils" "datasets" "base" other attached packages: affy Biobase ctv survival xgobi "1.8.1" "1.8.0" "0.3-1" "2.20" "1.2-13" This email message, including any attachments, is for the so...{{dropped}}

Hi Jacob -- It looks like you're using a non-Windows R. You probably need to re-configure R to build a shared library, and then to re-make R. Do this with something like ./configure --enable-R-shlib make to build R in the source tree (better to build R 'out-of-tree', though by first making a directory in some convenient location, cd to the directory, then path/to/R source/configure --enable-R-shlib and make). See configure --help for more options, and the R installation and administration manual, section 2, e.g., at http://cran.fhcrc.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html for more information. Hope that helps, Martin "Zhang, Jacob" <jacob.zhang at="" vai.org=""> writes: > Hello, everybody: > > I just installed the latest version of R and trying to install the > packages. The eriee thing is: while for some package, it works fine, for > others, it won't install. Here is one of the similar error messages from > one failed installation. > > > Can anybody take a look and figure out a solution? I sense it is > something related to the shared library. > > Jacob > > > > install.packages("aws") > trying URL > 'http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/src/contrib/aws_1.3-2.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 52774 bytes > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 51Kb > > * Installing *source* package 'aws' ... > ** libs > g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c aws.f -o aws.o > g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c dgemm.f -o dgemm.o > g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c eaws.f -o eaws.o > g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c hawsuni.f -o hawsuni.o > g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c laws.f -o laws.o > gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o aws.so aws.o dgemm.o eaws.o hawsuni.o > laws.o -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s -L/usr/home/jacob/R-2.2.1/lib -lR > /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../x86_64-suse- linux > /bin/ld: cannot find -lR > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [aws.so] Error 1 > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'aws' > ** Removing '/usr/home/jacob/R-2.2.1/library/aws' > > The downloaded packages are in > /tmp/Rtmpe25813/downloaded_packages > Warning message: > installation of package 'aws' had non-zero exit status in: > install.packages("aws") >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.2.1, 2005-12-20, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > attached base packages: > [1] "tools" "splines" "methods" "stats" "graphics" > "grDevices" > [7] "utils" "datasets" "base" > > other attached packages: > affy Biobase ctv survival xgobi > "1.8.1" "1.8.0" "0.3-1" "2.20" "1.2-13" > > This email message, including any attachments, is for the so...{{dropped}} > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor