Question

I usually ran different statistical analysis in R with routines that use lapack like gam() lm(), etc but after several updates of libraries the following error appears:

library(mgcv)
This is mgcv 1.7-22. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
model <- with(chlaR,gam(ClorMAX ~ s(DegDay_NM)))
Error en eigen(St, symmetric = TRUE) : 
lapack routines  cannot be loaded
Además: Mensajes de aviso perdidos
In eigen(St, symmetric = TRUE) :
  unable to load shared object '/usr/lib/R/modules//lapack.so':
  /usr/lib/R/modules//lapack.so: undefined symbol: dpstrf_

The version information is:

platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu            
arch           i686                         
os             linux-gnu                    
system         i686, linux-gnu              
status                                      
major          2                            
minor          15.2                         
year           2012                         
month          10                           
day            26                           
svn rev        61015                        
language       R             

I am using Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS

UPDATE: I have checked the lapack.so library

leonardo@LyP:~$ ldd  /usr/lib/R/modules/lapack.so
linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x009ec000)
libR.so => /usr/lib/libR.so (0x0023a000)
liblapack.so.3gf => /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3gf (0x00ba3000)
libblas.so.3gf => /usr/lib/libblas.so.3gf (0x00186000)
...

checking the object

leonardo@LyP:~$ R CMD objdump -T /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3gf|grep dpstrf
00327f10 g    DF .text  000024d4  Base        dpstrf_

but

R CMD ldd /usr/lib/R/modules/lapack.so
linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x009f5000)
libR.so => /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so (0x00110000)
liblapack.so.3gf => /usr/lib/R/lib/liblapack.so.3gf (0x009f6000)
libblas.so.3gf => /usr/lib/R/lib/libblas.so.3gf (0x11eef000)

R links to another library and searching for the object:

leonardo@LyP:~$ R CMD objdump -T /usr/lib/R/lib/liblapack.so.3gf|grep dpstrf

gives empty

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I uninstall R using synaptics and marking all r-base and r-cran packages, reinstall it with

sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev r-base-html

and that’s it, everything work fine.

Thanks to all the commenters!