Michael
2012-May-27 17:26 UTC
[R] SOS! R Console crashed after loading RODBC... Update: Re: How to set up RODBC? Diff between R Console and RStudio?
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Michael <comtech.usa@gmail.com> wrote:> Help! The R Console very quietly closed and exited without giving any > errors/warnings...after I loaded the RODBC library... > > Loading required package: RODBC > > > > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Michael <comtech.usa@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> It's very strange. In RStudio, I can successfully load("RODBC"). But in >> the plain R Console, I just couldn't get it work: >> >> (For some special and important reasons, I have to make the RODBC work in >> R Console, not the RStudio.) >> >> At first, the some shared library "libodbc.so" couldn't be found... it's >> right there, but R Console just couldn't find it. >> >> I then find that the >> >> Sys.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH") is different for R Console vs. RStudio. >> >> Weirdly, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in RStudio even doesn't have any "ODBC" >> terms/words in its long string... >> >> I guess RStudio has some special configuration for RODBC, so it doesn't >> require LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set up for ODBC at all. >> >> I then added the ODBC library path into the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in R Console. >> >> I found that this problem is solved... >> >> But then the R Console complained that the "ODBCINI" was set up correctly. >> >> So I compared the "ODBCINI" in RStudio vs. "ODBCINI" in R Console, found >> the R Console one seems to be missing. >> >> I then copied the "ODBCINI" from RStudio and pasted it into R Console. >> >> Now the load("RODBC") can run in the plain R Console, but then the whole >> R console crashed without giving any errors/warnings... >> >> It exited back to the shell prompt... >> >> What can I do? Anybody please shed some lights on me on this? >> >> Thanks a lot! >> > >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Prof Brian Ripley
2012-May-27 17:47 UTC
[R] SOS! R Console crashed after loading RODBC... Update: Re: How to set up RODBC? Diff between R Console and RStudio?
He is multiple-posting: this was also posted on R-siq-db. Please do not answer here. The R-sig-db moderator On 27/05/2012 18:26, Michael wrote:> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Michael<comtech.usa at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Help! The R Console very quietly closed and exited without giving any >> errors/warnings...after I loaded the RODBC library... >> >> Loading required package: RODBC >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Michael<comtech.usa at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> It's very strange. In RStudio, I can successfully load("RODBC"). But in >>> the plain R Console, I just couldn't get it work: >>> >>> (For some special and important reasons, I have to make the RODBC work in >>> R Console, not the RStudio.) >>> >>> At first, the some shared library "libodbc.so" couldn't be found... it's >>> right there, but R Console just couldn't find it. >>> >>> I then find that the >>> >>> Sys.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH") is different for R Console vs. RStudio. >>> >>> Weirdly, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in RStudio even doesn't have any "ODBC" >>> terms/words in its long string... >>> >>> I guess RStudio has some special configuration for RODBC, so it doesn't >>> require LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set up for ODBC at all. >>> >>> I then added the ODBC library path into the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in R Console. >>> >>> I found that this problem is solved... >>> >>> But then the R Console complained that the "ODBCINI" was set up correctly. >>> >>> So I compared the "ODBCINI" in RStudio vs. "ODBCINI" in R Console, found >>> the R Console one seems to be missing. >>> >>> I then copied the "ODBCINI" from RStudio and pasted it into R Console. >>> >>> Now the load("RODBC") can run in the plain R Console, but then the whole >>> R console crashed without giving any errors/warnings... >>> >>> It exited back to the shell prompt... >>> >>> What can I do? Anybody please shed some lights on me on this? >>> >>> Thanks a lot! >>> >> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- 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