[rkward-users] [rkward - Help] RE: RKWard won't start (libRlapack.so)

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By: nono_231

Dear fsando & studentz,

As far as I remember libRlapack.so was not available at the official debs of
Debian and Ubuntu. I say as far as I remember because I compile R for long time
now.

One option is to add 

deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu hardy/

where at my.favorite.cran.mirror add you favorite and closer mirror e.g.

deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu hardy/

This probably will have libRlapack.so, although not tested.

the second option is to compile R yourself. I do not remember again surely but
one of the libraries in the lib directory of R was missing the deb files. So
I made a small script to install R correctly:

#!/bin/bash
./configure --enable-R-shlib --enable-mbcs && make

Untar the file, if you want rename it to R, and run the script in the R fodler.

This way you can have a topically installed R. In order to have  libRlapack.so
and tk you have to have installed the libraries. The ./configure will help you
see what is missing. I see that I have installed libblas3gf and and liblapack3gf.
For Tk you need tk-dev, tcl-dev, for java support sun-java6-jdk. The

./configure 

script will warn you with what is missing anyhow. However if it is not critical
it will compile and install without it.

After running the above script somewhere in your home e.g. Projects, you have
two options. One to make a shortcut to the /usr/bin:

cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s ~/Projects/R/bin/R ./

This way R is can be run from there using the R command as usual. 

Otherwise you can make

sudo make install 

and install to your system. The first way is more handy at upgrading.

I hope something of the above can help you

Kind Regards,
Ilias

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