R help - Sep 2003 - anybody running Rggobi on a redhat 9.0 system?

Hi
my installation of ggobi (!) was successful, but when I try to install
Rggobi as described on http://www.ggobi.org/INSTALL.html:

as non-su:
R_HOME=/usr/lib/R
export R_HOME
GGOBI_ROOT=/usr/local/src/ggobi
export GGOBI_ROOT
R_LIBS=/usr/lib/R/library
export R_LIBS

as: su
ln -s $GGOBI_ROOT/lib/libggobi.so /usr/lib/.
ln -s $GGOBI_ROOT/lib/libgtkext.so /usr/lib/.
R CMD INSTALL Rggobi_0.53-0.tar.gz

I get:
** R
** inst
** save image
Error in "class<-"(*tmp*, value = Class) :
        couldn't find function "objWithClass"
Warning message:
package methods in options("defaultPackages") was not found
Error in "class<-"(*tmp*, value = Class) :
        couldn't find function "objWithClass"
Error in library("methods") : .First.lib failed
Execution halted
/usr/local/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: line 1: 14240 Broken pipe             cat
"${R_PACKAGE_DIR}/R/${pkg}"
ERROR: execution of package source for 'Rggobi' failed


many thanks for your help
Christoph
-- 
Christoph Lehmann <christoph.lehmann at gmx.ch>

Christoph Lehmann wrote:
> Hi
> my installation of ggobi (!) was successful, but when I try to install
> Rggobi as described on http://www.ggobi.org/INSTALL.html:
> 
> as non-su:
> R_HOME=/usr/lib/R
> export R_HOME
> GGOBI_ROOT=/usr/local/src/ggobi
> export GGOBI_ROOT
> R_LIBS=/usr/lib/R/library
> export R_LIBS
> 
> as: su
> ln -s $GGOBI_ROOT/lib/libggobi.so /usr/lib/.
> ln -s $GGOBI_ROOT/lib/libgtkext.so /usr/lib/.
> R CMD INSTALL Rggobi_0.53-0.tar.gz
> 
> I get:
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** save image
> Error in "class<-"(*tmp*, value = Class) :
>         couldn't find function "objWithClass"
> Warning message:
> package methods in options("defaultPackages") was not found
> Error in "class<-"(*tmp*, value = Class) :
>         couldn't find function "objWithClass"
> Error in library("methods") : .First.lib failed
> Execution halted
> /usr/local/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: line 1: 14240 Broken pipe             cat
> "${R_PACKAGE_DIR}/R/${pkg}"
> ERROR: execution of package source for 'Rggobi' failed
> 
> 
> many thanks for your help
> Christoph
Looks like your R installation is broken (package "methods" is not 
available). Try to reinstall R and look out for error messages.


Uwe Ligges