Benilton Carvalho
2008-Feb-15 15:42 UTC
[R] OT: installing the XML package - xmlOutputBufferCreateBuffer problem
Hi, first of, my apologies for the possibly off-topic message regarding a problem when installing the XML package (I meant to post at omegahat- help, but I get 404 at http://www.omegahat.org/mailman/listinfo) When installing the XML package using: install.packages("XML") everything seems to go fine... but then I try to load the package and I get: > library(XML) Error in dyn.load(file, ...) : unable to load shared library '/microarray/bin/R-devel/library/XML/ libs/XML.so': /microarray/bin/R-devel/library/XML/libs/XML.so: undefined symbol: xmlOutputBufferCreateBuffer Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'XML' Error: package/namespace load failed for 'XML' Suggestions? thanks a lot, b > sessionInfo() R version 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-10-10 r43139) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso885915;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.iso885915;LC_COLLATE=en_US.iso885915;LC_MONETARY=en_US.iso885915;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso885915;LC_PAPER=en_US.iso885915;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.iso885915;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tcltk_2.7.0 tools_2.7.0 $ xml2-config --version 2.6.23 $ uname -a Linux compute-0-35.local 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:32:02 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Prof Brian Ripley
2008-Feb-15 16:37 UTC
[R] OT: installing the XML package - xmlOutputBufferCreateBuffer problem
You need a later version of libxml2 (or at least, a different one as possibly an older one would also work). I met this on Windows -- 2.6.23 is old (more than 2 years), and I believe 2.6.28, 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 work. The Omegahat lists have been defunct for a while, AFAIK. I'd have used R-devel for this one ('discussion unintelligible to non-programmers'). Although not relevant here, there is a general principle that questions about the R-devel version of R should go to R-devel. On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Benilton Carvalho wrote:> Hi, > > first of, my apologies for the possibly off-topic message regarding a problem > when installing the XML package (I meant to post at omegahat-help, but I get > 404 at http://www.omegahat.org/mailman/listinfo) > > When installing the XML package using: > > install.packages("XML") > > everything seems to go fine... but then I try to load the package and I get: > >> library(XML) > Error in dyn.load(file, ...) : > unable to load shared library > '/microarray/bin/R-devel/library/XML/libs/XML.so': > /microarray/bin/R-devel/library/XML/libs/XML.so: undefined symbol: > xmlOutputBufferCreateBuffer > Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'XML' > Error: package/namespace load failed for 'XML' > > Suggestions? > > thanks a lot, > > b > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-10-10 r43139) > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnuIf you are going to use R-devel, we suggest you at least use a recent version. That one is lacking all the bug fixes in 2.6.1 and 2.6.2, as well as lots of nice features.> locale: > LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso885915;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.iso885915;LC_COLLATE=en_US.iso885915;LC_MONETARY=en_US.iso885915;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso885915;LC_PAPER=en_US.iso885915;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.iso885915;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tcltk_2.7.0 tools_2.7.0 > > $ xml2-config --version > 2.6.23-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595