Failing to install a package

[joostpb]

I'm on ubuntu 18.04, I just added the package repository for r 4.0.3 (sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/')

And when I tried to install a package, I got the following error message:

(... a lot more throw x similar to the line below this one)
smat.cpp:980:32: warning: macro "__DATE__" might prevent reproducible builds [-Wdate-time]
   THROW (a.size () == b.size ()) ;
                                ^
g++ -std=gnu++11 -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o pcaPP.so L1Median_HoCr.o L1Median_VardiZhang.o ML_meal.o ML_package.o ML_passrng.o PCAgrid.o PCAproj.o R_meal.o R_meal_BLAS.o R_package.o cov.kendall.o hess.o l1median.o outSDo.o pcaPP.o pcaPP_init.o qnn.o smat.o -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
/usr/share/R/share/make/shlib.mk:10: recipe for target 'pcaPP.so' failed
make: *** [pcaPP.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘pcaPP’
* removing ‘/home/joost/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0/pcaPP’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘pcaPP’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependencies ‘gsl’, ‘pcaPP’ are not available for package ‘copula’
* removing ‘/home/joost/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0/copula’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘copula’ had non-zero exit status

I'm not sure how to fix this issue. Can someone here help me with it?

[nirgrahamuk]

Seems you are missing at least two system utilities in order to compile

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas

I would investigate how to install these on the system.

[joostpb]

Thanks, that seemed to be the problem. After I installed them using

sudo apt-get install libblas-dev liblapack-dev

another packages was still missing (gsl), which I installed using

sudo apt-get install libgsl0-dev