R help - May 2009 - Unable to load R

Dear all,
                I have recently installed R on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(RHEL5)  system. But I am unable to load R and it is giving the following
error :

*/usr/local/lib/R/bin/exec/R: error while loading shared libraries:
libreadline.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory*

I have checked for the presence of the above mention library and found that
the library is present.  I have run out of ideas. Can anyone help me out???
I will be greatly indebted.


Cheers,

Anupam Sinha,
Graduate Student,
Lab of Computational Biology,
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics,
Hyderabad, India

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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:42:41AM +0530, anupam sinha
wrote:
>
> I have checked for the presence of the above mention library and found that
> the library is present.  I have run out of ideas. Can anyone help me out???
> I will be greatly indebted.
> 
First: how did you check that the library is present?

It might be that you have installed 32-bit R on 64-bit RHEL or vice-versa, so
you need to install the requisite libraries in appropriate "bitness".