Problems installing quantreg

Hi All,
 I'm trying to install the quantreg library on my MEPIS box (debian-based 
linux).  When I try >install.packages("quantreg") it fails to loads and 
errors with: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas-3.  I tried installing a ton of 
packages to fix the missing part but the only thing I manage to do it cause 
problems with another shared library and had to re-install a couple of 
packages to even get R to run again (It's pretty late here and I'm just too 
tired to remember all the packages I messed with) .

As a work around I tried downloading an .rpm for the package and converting it 
to a .deb using alien.  I then installed the .deb through kpackage.  It 
installed without any complaints and I can run the library command with 
quantreg.  However when I try to run a quantreg command (in this case, rq) at 
the R prompt, I get: "Error: Object "rq" not found".  This suggests to me 
that the package hasn't really installed itself or isn't working properly.

Does anyone have any ideas?  I'd really like to be able to use this library 
with R.  In fact at the moment R doesn't do me much good without it.
Thanks.

mark engle wrote:

Hi All,
 I'm trying to install the quantreg library on my MEPIS box (debian-based
linux).  When I try >install.packages("quantreg") it fails to loads and
errors with: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas-3.  I tried installing a ton of
packages to fix the missing part but the only thing I manage to do it cause
problems with another shared library and had to re-install a couple of
packages to even get R to run again (It's pretty late here and I'm just too
tired to remember all the packages I messed with) .

As a work around I tried downloading an .rpm for the package and converting it
to a .deb using alien.  I then installed the .deb through kpackage.  It
installed without any complaints and I can run the library command with
quantreg.  However when I try to run a quantreg command (in this case, rq) at
the R prompt, I get: "Error: Object "rq" not found".  This suggests to me
that the package hasn't really installed itself or isn't working properly.

Does anyone have any ideas?  I'd really like to be able to use this library
with R.  In fact at the moment R doesn't do me much good without it.
Thanks.

How was your R or r-base-core installed?  If it came from one of Dirk's
Debian packages it should already have a dependency on one of the atlas3
packages (either atlas3-base or atlas3-sse or atlas3-sse2 or
atlas3-3dnow) that provides a blas-3 library.

I would suggest installing one of the atlas3 packages (sse2 for recent
Pentium or 3dnow for a recent Athlon chip).

Although the arrangements with the atlas3 packages are complex they
provide a great performance boost on some linear algebra operations with
large matrices.

I have the same problem as well. I installed atalas3-sse2 and still hasd
the same problem. Here's the log of messages
* Installing *source* package 'quantreg' ...
** libs
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c akj.f -o akj.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c boot.f -o boot.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c boundc.f -o boundc.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c bound.f -o bound.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c chlfct.f -o chlfct.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c cholesky.f -o cholesky.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c extract.f -o extract.o
gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include     -fPIC  -g -O2 -c mcmb.c -o mcmb.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c penalty.f -o penalty.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c rls.f -o rls.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c rq1.f -o rq1.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c rqbr.f -o rqbr.o
rqbr.f: In subroutine `rqbr':
rqbr.f:418: warning:
         go to 60
               1
rqbr.f:547: (continued):
   60    idxcf = idxcf+1
   2
Reference to label at (1) is outside block containing definition at (2)
rqbr.f:405: warning:
         go to 70
               1
rqbr.f:551: (continued):
   70    if(lup)then
   2
Reference to label at (1) is outside block containing definition at (2)
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c rqfnb.f -o rqfnb.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c rqfnc.f -o rqfnc.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c rqfn.f -o rqfn.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c sparskit2.f -o sparskit2.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c srqfnc.f -o srqfnc.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c srqfn.f -o srqfn.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c srtpai.f -o srtpai.o
g77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c xlapack.f -o xlapack.o
gcc -shared  -o quantreg.so akj.o boot.o boundc.o bound.o chlfct.o
cholesky.o extract.o mcmb.o penalty.o rls.o rq1.o rqbr.o rqfnb.o rqfnc.o
rqfn.o sparskit2.o srqfnc.o srqfn.o srtpai.o xlapack.o -lblas-3
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/../../.. -lfrtbegin -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s
-L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas-3
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [quantreg.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'quantreg'
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/quantreg'
** Restoring previous '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/quantreg'