Eran Eidinger
2012-Mar-05 16:02 UTC
[R] Having a problem with R installation as a shared library
Hello All, I suspect I am having a problem with my R installation, something that has to do with "--enable-R-shlib". Can someone explain if this is something that I can fix using apt-get? More specifically: I am having trouble getting installing the RHive package. I Installed R from scratch, following the instructions in (for example): http://cran.ru.ac.za/bin/linux/ubuntu/ basically, just doing: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install r-base sudo apt-get install r-base-dev Next I opened R and installed rJava: install.packages("rJava") which worked fine. Next I tried installing RHive: install.packages("RHive") at which point the installation fails with the following message: * installing *source* package ‘Rserve’ ... ** package ‘Rserve’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking whether to compile the server... yes configure: error: R was configured without --enable-R-shlib or --enable-R-static-lib *** Rserve requires R (shared or static) library. *** *** Please install R library or compile R with either --enable-R-shlib *** *** or --enable-R-static-lib support *** What Should I Do? Also, I installed RStudio and this fails at startup with a related message: "R shared library (/usr/local/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found. If this is a custom build of R, was it built with the --enable-R-shlib option" All of which leads me to believe it is all related to the same problem. Weird thing is, I followed the same procedure on a different machine, and all seems to work fine... * * [[alternative HTML version deleted]]