'atlas' not found when trying to install octave

[caconger@…]

I tried installing octave, but it keeps saying that the dependency 'atlas' cannot be found. I did a selfupdate, restarted, and successfully installed R (the statistical software package). But still no dice. Here's the output ( I did sudo port to start) :

[Users/casey] > install octave ---> Computing dependencies for octave Error: Dependency 'atlas' not found. Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. To report a bug, see <​http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>