Unable to install package "quanteda.textstats" in R under Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS-CodePudding

I am trying to install the package quanteda.textstats in R under Ubuntu Version 22.04.1 LTS.

I initially ran:

install.packages("quanteda.textstats")

where I got an error message saying it could not install the dependency proxyC. I was able to install that, but I still get an error message when running the above code.

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [/usr/share/R/share/make/shlib.mk:10: quanteda.textstats.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘quanteda.textstats’
* removing ‘/home/user/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.2/quanteda.textstats’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘quanteda.textstats’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpuUtAq1/downloaded_packages’

I would guess I am missing certain dependencies, but I am unable to figure out what -llapack and -lblas stands for.

I also tried running the github install (option 3):

remotes::install_github("quanteda/quanteda.textstats")

but there as well I get a similar error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [/usr/share/R/share/make/shlib.mk:10: quanteda.textstats.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘quanteda.textstats’
* removing ‘/home/user/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.2/quanteda.textstats’
Warning message:
In i.p(...) :
  installation of package ‘/tmp/RtmpuUtAq1/file17581cc7f39c/quanteda.textstats_0.96.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

Can anybody help please?

CodePudding user response：

Your are trying to compile the package which requires to have certain system dependencies installed, in this case lblas and llapack. This is not the recommended way to install R packages on Ubuntu. Instead you should install them as PPAs as described on CRAN.

If you insist on compiling the package yourself, install the dependencies via apt in the system terminal:

sudo apt-get install libblas-dev liblapack-dev