Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared object '/usr/lib/R/library/RcppGSL/libs/RcppGSL.so': libgsl.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[englianhu]

:~$ sudo su - -c "R -e \"devtools::install_github('eddelbuettel/rcppziggurat', INSTALL_opts = '--no-lock', force = TRUE)\""
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> devtools::install_github('eddelbuettel/rcppziggurat', INSTALL_opts = '--no-lock', force = TRUE)
Downloading GitHub repo eddelbuettel/rcppziggurat@HEAD

   checking for file ‘/tmp/RtmpSnAWxn/remotes13b82702c7e0f/eddelbuettel-rcppzig✔  checking for file ‘/tmp/RtmpSnAWxn/remotes13b82702c7e0f/eddelbuettel-rcppziggurat-4903377/DESCRIPTION’
─  preparing ‘RcppZiggurat’:
✔  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
─  cleaning src
─  running ‘cleanup’
─  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
─  checking for empty or unneeded directories
─  building ‘RcppZiggurat_0.1.6.1.tar.gz’

* installing *source* package ‘RcppZiggurat’ ...
staged installation is only possible with locking
** using non-staged installation
** libs
g++ -std=gnu++14 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I. -I../inst/include -I'/usr/lib/R/library/Rcpp/include' -I'/usr/lib/R/library/RcppGSL/include'    -fpic  -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-apO4Ea/r-base-4.2.0=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o

g++ -std=gnu++14 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I. -I../inst/include -I'/usr/lib/R/library/Rcpp/include' -I'/usr/lib/R/library/RcppGSL/include'    -fpic  -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-apO4Ea/r-base-4.2.0=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c ziggurat.cpp -o ziggurat.o
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : 
  unable to load shared object '/usr/lib/R/library/RcppGSL/libs/RcppGSL.so':
  libgsl.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Calls: loadNamespace -> library.dynam -> dyn.load
Execution halted
g++ -std=gnu++14 -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o RcppZiggurat.so RcppExports.o ziggurat.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : 
  unable to load shared object '/usr/lib/R/library/RcppGSL/libs/RcppGSL.so':
  libgsl.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Calls: loadNamespace -> library.dynam -> dyn.load
Execution halted
installing to /usr/lib/R/library/RcppZiggurat/libs
** R
** demo
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘RcppZiggurat’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/usr/lib/R/library/RcppZiggurat/libs/RcppZiggurat.so':
  /usr/lib/R/library/RcppZiggurat/libs/RcppZiggurat.so: undefined symbol: gsl_rng_default
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing ‘/usr/lib/R/library/RcppZiggurat’
Warning message:
In i.p(...) :
  installation of package ‘/tmp/RtmpkdsY8z/file135db57b9647f/RcppZiggurat_0.1.6.1.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

[englianhu]

:~$ ## install RcppGSL first and follow by install RcppZiggurat
:~$ sudo su - -c "R -e \"install.packages(c('RcppGSL'), repos='https://cran.rstudio.org', lib='/usr/lib/R/library', dependencies = TRUE, INSTALL_opts = '--no-lock')\""
:~$ sudo su - -c "R -e \"devtools::install_github('eddelbuettel/rcppziggurat', INSTALL_opts = '--no-lock', force = TRUE)\""

[eddelbuettel]

You do not have GSL installed such that you can compile against it and you are invoking too many commands blindly to see thr espective error message:

  libgsl.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

That makes me think you are on, say, Ubuntu or Debian and have libgsl23 install _but are missing libgsl-dev.

So do sudo apt install gsl-dev (or the equivalent on whatever OS you are on) and you should be good to go afterwards.

[eddelbuettel]

## install RcppGSL first and follow by install RcppZiggurat

Or you could just have installed both from CRAN and RcppZiggurat would have pulled RcppGSL in.