R help - Aug 2005 - SJava linux installation problems

Hi:

I am extremely new to linux so bare with the questions.  I am trying to 
install the SJava package for R on linux (debian).

I issue the R CMD INSTALL SJava_0.68-0.tar.gz and get the following error

Cannot find Java.
Please set your path to include the directory in which the java executable 
resides,
or set the environment variable JAVA_HOME before this configure script is 
run.

I have j2sdk1.4.2_08 installed and I am assuming that the I need to set the 
environment variable JAVA_HOME to its path, so I did the following

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/j2sdk1.4.2_08/bin/

I get the same error as before.

Can someone please help me if I am missing something?  Your help will be 
greatly appreciated.

-Dhiren

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Dhiren DSouza wrote:
> I am extremely new to linux so bare with the questions.  I am
> trying to install the SJava package for R on linux (debian).
>
> I issue the R CMD INSTALL SJava_0.68-0.tar.gz and get the
> following error
>
> Cannot find Java.
> Please set your path to include the directory in which the
> java executable resides, or set the environment variable
> JAVA_HOME before this configure script is run.
>
> I have j2sdk1.4.2_08 installed and I am assuming that the I
> need to set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to its path,
> so I did the following
>
> export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/j2sdk1.4.2_08/bin/
Remove '/bin/' from the environment variable path as
JAVA_HOME should point to the directory containing the
'bin' subdirectory. Best practice is NOT to include the
trailing slash of directory name in the value for an
environment variable.

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