R devel - Nov 2001 - Gnits about setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH from R (PR#1166)

Full_Name: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Version: 1.3.1
OS: Linux
Submission from: (NULL) (65.184.214.9)



[ This bug report has previously been filed as #71917 in the Debian Bug Tracking
System. --edd ]

From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:48:11 +0900 (JST)
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: r-base gnits

Package: r-base
Version: 1.1.1-1

[1] The R startup script sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to start with
/usr/local/lib/.  I have installed a development version of glibc 2.2
there; needless to say R was not pleased with the little switcheroo
between /lib/ld-linux.so.2 and /usr/local/lib/libc.so.6.

I don't see any need for this.  If dl modules are being downloaded
from CRAN, they should go in /usr/local/lib/R/ or something like that,
not in /usr/local/lib.  Of course if they're Debianized, they
shouldn't be put in /usr/local at all.

[2] I don't have Netscape, I'm using Mozilla and Lynx mostly.
Something like xfig-www-browser(1) should be used to try and come up
with a sensible guess at a help browser.

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