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[BioC] BioC 2.3 standard installation

Background: some CRAN or Bioconductor packages contain native code
that needs to be compiled and then linked against a system library.
Some of those libraries are not part of a standard Ubuntu installation
and need to be installed explicitly (sudo apt-get install
<somelib>-dev).

In the case of preprocessCore, the output below suggests that it
needs to be linked against the BLAS and LAPACK libraries. Not sure
but I think those are part of a default R installation unless R has
been configured with --with-blas and --with-lapack which might be
your case.

Not sure what's going on. Just a couple of suggestions:

   - Make sure you have Ubuntu pkg r-base-dev

   - Try to install KernSmooth (recommended pkg) from source:

       > install.packages('KernSmooth')

     This will replace the one you got when you installed
     Ubuntu pkg r-cran-kernsmooth
     KernSmooth also needs to be linked against BLAS so if
     this fails then it means something is wrong with your
     R installation (in that case R-help might be a better place
     to ask for help).

H.
Tiandao Li wrote: