package r-cran-matrix build on old lib?

[Matifou]

Binary package hint: r-cran-matrix

Still on Ubuntu 8.04, I updated R (2.7 to 2.8) from a third party source (deb http://cran.univ-lyon1.fr/bin/linux/ubuntu hardy/)

This implied installation of new liblapack libraries, see (in french sorry)

 sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Les paquets supplémentaires suivants seront installés :
  libblas-dev liblapack-dev r-base-core tcl8.5 tk8.5
Paquets suggérés :
  cdbs
Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS :
  refblas3-dev
Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront installés :
  libblas-dev liblapack-dev tcl8.5 tk8.5
Les paquets suivants seront mis à jour :
  r-base-core r-base-dev

But with the newly installed R version 2.8 I couldn't run some libraries (Matrix and minpack.lm) neither installaing internally (sudo R | install.packages("Matrix") ) nor from sudo apt-get install r-cran-matrix

Both installation ways give error message:
library(Matrix)
| > Loading required package: lattice
| > Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
| > unable to load shared library '/usr/lib/R/site-library/Matrix/libs/Matrix.so':
| > libRlapack.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The only way which was functionning was to download the sources and compile with sudo R CMD INSTALL , had no error message anymore.

[Niall Bolger (ardollam)]

I'm having the same problem. The
latest version of R cannot load the Matrix package, even though it is
installed and readable. I've read the archive files for this list and
tried the suggested solutions (e.g., removing/uninstalling the Matrix
package and reinstalling it). Nothing has worked so far.

Niall Bolger

Details of the error I get when I try to load the Matrix package:

> library(Matrix)
Loading required package: lattice
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
  unable to load shared library
'/usr/lib/R/site-library/Matrix/libs/Matrix.so':
  libRlapack.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Matrix'