rab@nauticom.net writes:
> Hi. I'm using Red Hat 7.1 Linux (Intel 586). I installed the 1.6.0 rpm.
No
> problems were reported. When I tried to load the chron library:
>
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
> unable to load shared library
"/usr/lib/R/library/chron/libs/chron.so":
> libR.so: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
> Error in library(chron) : .First.lib failed
>
> I checked to see if there was a new version of chron but apparently I had
the
> latest version. I did an "update.packages" any way. It updated a
number of
> packages but not chron. I haven't noticed any problems with other
packages. R
> appears to run OK.
>
> I'm not sure why chron.so was missing. I removed the chron package and
> re-installed chron. That fixed the problem. But what happened to chron.so
when I
> installed 1.6.0?
Chron is not part of 1.6.0, so you must have had it before.
Presumably, your old version of R was built with support for R as a
shared library and the new one isn't, so chron.so goes looking for
libR.so on loading, and it isn't there anymore.
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