Error "ltMatrices.c:139:56: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘FCONE’ F77_CALL(dtptri)(&lo, &di, &iJ, dans, &info FCONE FCONE);" when a try to reinstall the package flexsurv

[moschito78]

Hi, i received this error after i removed the package and i tried to reinstall it:

ltMatrices.c: In function ‘R_ltMatrices_solve’: ltMatrices.c:139:56: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘FCONE’ F77_CALL(dtptri)(&lo, &di, &iJ, dans, &info FCONE FCONE); ^~ ) ltMatrices.c:144:66: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘FCONE’ F77_CALL(dtpsv)(&lo, &tr, &di, &iJ, dans, dansx, &ONE FCONE FCONE FCONE); ^~ ) ltMatrices.c: In function ‘R_syMatrices_chol’: ltMatrices.c:375:47: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘FCONE’ F77_CALL(dpptrf)(&lo, &iJ, dans, &info FCONE); ^~ ) ltMatrices.c: In function ‘R_vectrick’: ltMatrices.c:464:34: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘FCONE’ dans, &iJ FCONE FCONE FCONE FCONE); ^~ ) ltMatrices.c:475:34: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘FCONE’ dans, &iJ FCONE FCONE FCONE FCONE); ^~ ) make: *** [/usr/lib64/R/etc/Makeconf:167: ltMatrices.o] Error 1 ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘mvtnorm’

• removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/mvtnorm’ ERROR: dependency ‘mvtnorm’ is not available for package ‘bbmle’
• removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/bbmle’ ERROR: dependency ‘bbmle’ is not available for package ‘rstpm2’
• removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/rstpm2’ ERROR: dependencies ‘mvtnorm’, ‘rstpm2’ are not available for package ‘flexsurv’
• removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/flexsurv’

My R version is 3.6.0 (2019-04-26) -- "Planting of a Tree" on redhat 7.9.

Does anybody know what happened?

I thank anyone who can help me.

[chjackson]

Doesn't look like a flexsurv issue, rather an issue with installing mvtnorm, one of the packages it depends on. That is a very old version of R you have, but https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mvtnorm/index.html claims to support R >=3.5.0, so I don't know.

A similar error is reported at https://community.rstudio.com/t/rstudio-libraries-msm-and-mvtnorm-are-not-installing-on-linux-rh-rstudio-server-2023-06-0-build-4-2-1/168152/4, and a suggestion is made there to upgrade the C compiler. Or install binaries (if these are available) rather than compiling from source.