GLPK: No such file or directory error when trying to install R package

Question

I am trying to install sparkTable in R 3.1.0 which depends on Rglpk. I manually installed GPLK on the system and added the libs folder to LD_

Answer 1

I had this problem too. The following steps solved this issue for me. My current setup:

• OS: Scientifc Linux version 6.5 (on a High Performance Cluster Server)
• local user, no root access.
• GLPK was not installed

Install GLPK in a local directory:

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glpk/glpk-4.54.tar.gz
tar xfzv glpk-4.54.tar.gz
mkdir GLPK
cd glpk-4.54
./configure --prefix=/home//GLPK
make
make install

Install Rglpk (0.6-3):

cd ~
wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Rglpk_0.6-3.tar.gz
export LIBRARY_PATH=/home//GLPK/lib
R CMD INSTALL Rglpk_0.6-3.tar.gz