Error installing RcppArmadillo about rcpparmadillo HOT 5 CLOSED

You need gfortran v4.8; see here:

http://www.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/rcpp-rcpparmadillo-and-os-x-mavericks-lgfortran-and-lquadmath-error/

which is still relevant for El Capitan. Open terminal and run

curl -O http://r.research.att.com/libs/gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2
sudo tar fvxz gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2 -C /

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The error is right in front of you: you need to install the Fortran compiler or library (as we need to link to LAPACK which in turn requires Fortran)

ld: library not found for -lgfortran

Please see the OS X help for R -- there is a list or google it -- on this. I don't have an OS X machine, but I understand this be a FAQ. Worst case please subscribe to rcpp-devel and ask there.

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Yep, I just poked around on StackOverflow and here is one answer from there. Thanks to @kthohr for the link from @coatless.

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It works to some people if you install the Dev version:

install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/RcppArmadillo/RcppArmadillo_0.9.900.3.0.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")

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I am sorry but what value does that message add? We had three+ more releases since so 0.9.900.3.0 is outdated.

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