R help - Jun 2009 - Package Install "Design" fails on Ubuntu 8.04

Dear All,

I am running a Ubuntu 8.04 System and trying to install the 
Design-package. Hmisc is already installed, all fortran compilers and a 
Tex-Package are also on board. I searched the net and the help list for 
analogue threads, but didn't find any.
Whenever I run the  install.packages("Design")-Command, the following 
error message shows up in the terminal window:

--
** preparing package for lazy loading
Loading required package: Hmisc
Error in dyn.load(file, ...) :
   unable to load shared library 
'/home/dp0377/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/Hmisc/libs/Hmisc.so':
   /home/dp0377/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/Hmisc/libs/Hmisc.so: 
undefined symbol: translateCharUTF8
Error: package 'Hmisc' could not be loaded
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'Design'
** Removing '/home/dp0377/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/Design'
--

I think the problem lies in: 'Hmisc/libs/Hmisc.so: undefined symbol: 
translateCharUTF8'.
Can somebody tell me what's going wrong here?

Thx in advance,
Dennis

-- 
Dr. Dennis Proppe

Winkelsfelder Str. 25
40477 D?sseldorf

Not to fix your fundamental problem, but if you don't mind using the 
next-to-last versions of the packages you can install them quite easily 
as debian/Ubuntu packages.  They are named r-cran-hmisc and 
r-cran-design. You can use sudo apt-get install ... or the adept package 
manager etc.

Frank

Dennis Proppe wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am running a Ubuntu 8.04 System and trying to install the 
> Design-package. Hmisc is already installed, all fortran compilers and a 
> Tex-Package are also on board. I searched the net and the help list for 
> analogue threads, but didn't find any.
> Whenever I run the  install.packages("Design")-Command, the
following
> error message shows up in the terminal window:
> 
> -- 
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Loading required package: Hmisc
> Error in dyn.load(file, ...) :
>   unable to load shared library 
>
'/home/dp0377/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/Hmisc/libs/Hmisc.so':
>   /home/dp0377/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/Hmisc/libs/Hmisc.so: 
> undefined symbol: translateCharUTF8
> Error: package 'Hmisc' could not be loaded
> Execution halted
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'Design'
> ** Removing '/home/dp0377/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/Design'
> -- 
> 
> I think the problem lies in: 'Hmisc/libs/Hmisc.so: undefined symbol: 
> translateCharUTF8'.
> Can somebody tell me what's going wrong here?
> 
> Thx in advance,
> Dennis
> 

-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University