After a recent upgrade I am unable to start the R programming environment. I am not sure which upgrade as I have not used R for about 4-5 weeks.
Typing “R” at the command line gives the message:
$ R
/usr/lib64/R/bin/exec/R: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$
$ equery g dev-lang/R | grep libgfortran
$
$ eix libgfortran*
No matches found
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘stats’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
unable to load shared object '/usr/lib64/R/library/stats/libs/stats.so':
libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
During startup - Warning message:
package ‘stats’ in options("defaultPackages") was not found