Dear Paul, Thanks for the response. I could resolve the problem. The problem, as you had rightly pointed out, was the absence of the gfortran package called libgfortran41. I located the rpm and installed it. This contains libgfortran.so.1. That does it.
Thanks again. sambit On 27 October 2011 19:04, Paul Hiemstra <paul.hiems...@knmi.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > Yea Linux! I think you are missing a library file (libgfortran.so.1), > you can use locate to try and find the so file, in bash type: > > locate libgfortran > > Now three things can happen: > - It doesn't find anything, than you need to install an additional > gfortran package. This is often called libgfortran-dev or something (at > least it is called this way in debian and ubuntu). This installs > development files, including libgfortran.so > - It finds a file called libgfotran.so.something but not .so.1. So you > have the file, but it is not named correctly. Easiest solution is to > create a symbolic link called libgfortran.so.1 to > libgfortran.so.something and loading the library in R > - It finds the correct file. Could be that the file is not in your PATH. > Add the location of the file (the directy that is) to your path. > > cheers, > Paul > > On 10/27/2011 12:56 PM, sambit rath wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am "still" fairly new to R and newer still to linux (opensuse). I >> want to install a package called "FEAR" from >> "http://www.clemson.edu/economics/faculty/wilson/Software/FEAR/fear-download.html";. >> So, I downloaded the tar.gz file called >> "FEAR-linux-64bit-2.6.16.60-0.21-smp.tar.gz" and it is in the >> directory "/home/sambit/Downloads" right now. Then I invoked R from >> terminal and keyed in >>> install.packages("/home/sambit/Downloads/FEAR-linux-64bit-2.6.16.60-0.21-smp.tar.gz", >>> repos=NULL) >> Installing package(s) into >> ‘/home/sambit/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13’ >> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) >> * installing *binary* package ‘FEAR’ ... >> >> * DONE (FEAR) >> >> So, I think that the installation was successful. But when I load the >> package, >>> library(FEAR) >> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : >> unable to load shared object >> '/home/sambit/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/FEAR/libs/FEAR.so': >> libgfortran.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'FEAR' >> >> I do not know what to do right now. I would really appreciate it >> someone could point out the next step. Thanks in advance. >> >> Sambit >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > -- > Paul Hiemstra, Ph.D. > Global Climate Division > Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) > Wilhelminalaan 10 | 3732 GK | De Bilt | Kamer B 3.39 > P.O. Box 201 | 3730 AE | De Bilt > tel: +31 30 2206 494 > > http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul > http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/paul-hiemstra/20/30b/770 > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
