problems with installing latticeExtra

[spz1st]

I'm using R 3.6.0 on a redhat7 machine. After I installed a new package, I got the following errors for loading ShortRead (used to work before the new package was installed):

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘ShortRead’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc,  .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
there is no package called ‘latticeExtra’

But when I tried to install latticeExtra, I got the following errors:

• installing source package ‘png’ ...
  ** package ‘png’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** using staged installation
  ** libs
  Error in if (nzchar(SHLIB_LIBADD)) SHLIB_LIBADD else character() :
  argument is of length zero

• removing ‘/mnt/isilon/dbhi_bfx/miniconda_4c/lib/R/library/png’

• installing source package ‘jpeg’ ...
  ** package ‘jpeg’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** using staged installation
  ** libs
  Error in if (nzchar(SHLIB_LIBADD)) SHLIB_LIBADD else character() :
  argument is of length zero

• removing ‘/mnt/isilon/dbhi_bfx/miniconda_4c/lib/R/library/jpeg’
  ERROR: dependencies ‘png’, ‘jpeg’ are not available for package ‘latticeExtra’

• removing ‘/mnt/isilon/dbhi_bfx/miniconda_4c/lib/R/library/latticeExtra’

  The downloaded source packages are in
  ‘/scr1/users/zhangs3/scratch/RtmpihCmnh/downloaded_packages’
  Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
  Making 'packages.html' ... done
  Warning messages:
  1: In install.packages("latticeExtra") :
  installation of package ‘png’ had non-zero exit status
  2: In install.packages("latticeExtra") :
  installation of package ‘jpeg’ had non-zero exit status
  3: In install.packages("latticeExtra") :
  installation of package ‘latticeExtra’ had non-zero exit status

But I already have png and jpeg available.

> capabilities()['png']
png
TRUE

> capabilities()['jpeg']
jpeg
TRUE

Anyone has suggestions for solving the problems? Thanks.

[AlexisW]

Did you see this post? They seem to have solved the same problem by replacing a Makeconf file.

[spz1st]

@spz1st

ERROR: dependencies ‘png’, ‘jpeg’ are not available for package ‘latticeExtra’

Thanks! I was able to solve the problem based on the info in the post you pointed to.