Error in La.chol2inv(x, size) : lapack routines cannot be loaded
Your subject line is misleading: you ignored a warning during make. The solution is not to specify all the confgure flags you can think of, and allow R to choose. Only once you have it working with the defaults try substituting other libraries. Your particular problem is that you have a non-shareable liblapack in your library path. Do see the warnings about this on 64-bit systems in the R-admin manual (you know, the one the INSTALL file asks you to read if you run into problems!).
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Joris De Wolf wrote:
Dear all, OS: x86_64-suse-linux 9.2 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz R-version: R-2.1.0 I've started using a new Linux server, upgraded at the same time to R-2.1.0 (see above) and have problems with some elementary analysis that ran without a problem on my previous configuration. anova.glm gives the following error: Error in La.chol2inv(x, size) : lapack routines cannot be loaded This was with the after the following configure ./configure --with-readline --prefix=/opt/R-2.1.0 --with-libpng --with-jpeglib --with-pcre --without-x The obvious thing to try next was: ./configure --with-readline --prefix=/opt/R-2.1.0 --with-libpng --with-jpeglib --with-pcre --without-x --with-lapack but this gave errors at the make: make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R-2.1.0/src/modules/lapack' make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R-2.1.0/src/modules/lapack' make[4]: `Makedeps' is up to date. make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R-2.1.0/src/modules/lapack' make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R-2.1.0/src/modules/lapack' gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o lapack.so Lapack.lo -llapack -lblas -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../lib64/liblapack.a(dgecon.i): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../lib64/liblapack.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [lapack.so] Error 1 I've found some similar postings about Debian, but without a soluition.
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