How to fix R package installation /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas

Problem:

While installing some R package, you see an error message like

example.sh
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas

Solution

You need to install the libblas development headers. On Ubuntu, you can do that using

example.sh
sudo apt -y install libblas-dev

 


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