Error message installing package R package

Pramod Anugu <pramod.r.anugu <at> jsums.edu> writes:

I am getting error messages while installing R package lme4. Please advice

This would be better on the r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org list.

  You haven't told us, but I'm guess from what you've pasted below
that you're on a Unix system, and most obviously one without the
'gfortran' FORTRAN compiler installed.  The procedures for installing
gfortran will be system-specific (for Linux probably either apt-get
install ... or yum ...) -- there may be useful instructions on the web,
or on the main r-project web site.

trying URL 'http://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/lme4_0.999999-0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1074142 bytes (1.0 Mb)

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gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o lme4.so init.o lmer.o
local_stubs.o -L/share/apps/R-2.15.3/lib -lRlapack
-L/share/apps/R-2.15.3/lib -lRblas -lgfortran -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status