Unable to install package car

Question

I am using R version 3.2.3 in Linux mint 17.3 64 bit. I was trying to install the package "car" with dependencies=TRUE, but the installation failed with the following error messages:

> warnings()
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘minqa’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘RcppEigen’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘leaps’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘lmtest’ had non-zero exit status
5: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘rgl’ had non-zero exit status
6: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘SparseM’ had non-zero exit status
7: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘quantreg’ had non-zero exit status
8: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘lme4’ had non-zero exit status
9: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘effects’ had non-zero exit status
10: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘pbkrtest’ had non-zero exit status
11: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘car’ had non-zero exit status
12: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘alr4’ had non-zero exit status

How do I resolve the issue? Please help.

Answer 1

I finally found the solution. After looking at the error message for installing "minqa", I realized that the installer was unable to find gfortran. So I installed gfortran,then tried to install "car" again. This time I got another error message saying that -llapack -lblas were not found. Therefore, according to this link: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack I installed packages "liblapack-dev", "liblapack3", "libopenblas-base" and "libopenblas-dev". After that, the "car" package was successfully installed.

Answer 2

Install r-cran-car

Installing r-cran-car package on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) is as easy as running the following command on terminal:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install r-cran-car

Answer 3

When browsing through the output of install.packages("car"), I had the next error messages:

/bin/bash: gfortran: command not found
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas

After added the related packages to my Ubuntu system, everything worked fine.

sudo apt-get install gfortran liblapack-dev libblas-dev

Answer 4

I had the same issue. In my case it was enough to install gcc-fortran on my machine.

Answer 5

If you are using Anaconda, consider installing the gfortran package via conda. For example, on Mac:

conda install -c anaconda gfortran_osx-64