Como corrigir erro de instalação RcppGSL gsl-config: Command not found

Problema:

Ao tentar instalar RcppGSL usando

install_rcppgsl.R

BiocManager::install("RcppGSL")

BiocManager::install("RcppGSL")

você vê a seguinte mensagem de erro:

gsl_config_error.txt

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for gsl-config... no
configure: error: gsl-config not found, is GSL installed?
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RcppGSL’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RcppGSL’

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/RtmpqSzFab/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In .inet_warning(msg) :
  installation of package ‘RcppGSL’ had non-zero exit status

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for gsl-config... no
configure: error: gsl-config not found, is GSL installed?
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RcppGSL’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RcppGSL’

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/RtmpqSzFab/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In .inet_warning(msg) :
  installation of package ‘RcppGSL’ had non-zero exit status

Solução

Você precisa instalar os headers de desenvolvimento libgsl2 que incluem o executável gsl-config.

No Ubuntu, você pode instalá-lo usando

install_gsl_deps.sh

sudo apt -y install libgsl2-dev

sudo apt -y install libgsl2-dev