Dear R users: I have a problem when installing the R package *gsl*. The procedure is as follows:
(1) Since it needs a GSL vesion >=1.12, and the GSL library on the serve I use is too old, I download GSL 1.15 and install it in my own account, such as $HOME/local/gsl. Because I do not have root access, so it cannot be installed in standard folder. (2) Then I download the source code of R pakage gsl, since I cannot use the command *export*, the solution in the package manual *PAGE 29-30* does not work for me. I use command as follows to install the package: R CMD INSTALL --configure-args="LDFLAGS=-L/data1/zhucai/local/gsl/lib;PKG_LIBS=-L/data1/zhucai/local/gsl/lib;PKG_CPPFLAGS=-I/data1/zhucai/local/gsl/include" 'gsl_1.9-9.tar.gz' Then I can bypass the version check and compile the package, however, the error message is as follows ** package gsl successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for gsl-config... /usr/local/bin/gsl-config checking if GSL version >= 1.12... checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed configure: error: Need GSL version >= 1.12 ** libs .....compile installing to /data1/zhucai/local/R-2.15.1/library/gsl/libs ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ** installing vignettes gslpaper.Rnw ** testing if installed package can be loaded Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared object '/data1/zhucai/local/R-2.15.1/library/gsl/libs/gsl.so': libgsl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error: loading failed Execution halted ERROR: loading failed * removing /data1/zhucai/local/R-2.15.1/library/gsl I know it may be because LB_LIBRARY_PATH, but I cannot contract with administer easily and no right to modify it, so how can I do about it? BTW, the R I used is also installed locally in my own account, which is 2.15.1. Any help is appreciated. Thank you very much. Regards ZHU Cai [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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