Unable to install package car

r 64-bit linux-mint install.packages r-car
Bishwarup Paul picture Bishwarup Paul · Feb 26, 2016 · Viewed 15.7k times · Source

I am using R version 3.2.3 in Linux mint 17.3 64 bit. I was trying to install the package "car" with dependencies=TRUE, but the installation failed with the following error messages:

> warnings()
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘minqa’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘RcppEigen’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘leaps’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘lmtest’ had non-zero exit status
5: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘rgl’ had non-zero exit status
6: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘SparseM’ had non-zero exit status
7: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘quantreg’ had non-zero exit status
8: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘lme4’ had non-zero exit status
9: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘effects’ had non-zero exit status
10: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘pbkrtest’ had non-zero exit status
11: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘car’ had non-zero exit status
12: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘alr4’ had non-zero exit status

How do I resolve the issue? Please help.

Answer

Bishwarup Paul picture Bishwarup Paul · Feb 26, 2016

I finally found the solution. After looking at the error message for installing "minqa", I realized that the installer was unable to find gfortran. So I installed gfortran,then tried to install "car" again. This time I got another error message saying that -llapack -lblas were not found. Therefore, according to this link: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack I installed packages "liblapack-dev", "liblapack3", "libopenblas-base" and "libopenblas-dev". After that, the "car" package was successfully installed.

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