How to fix R package installation /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas
Problem:
While installing some R package, you see an error message like
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas
Solution
You need to install the libblas development headers. On Ubuntu, you can do that using
sudo apt -y install libblas-dev
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