[R] installation problem on Ubuntu

Paul Tremblay
Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:23:04 -0000

I was able to install the curl library with no problems. However, when I
tried to install ggplot (install.packages("ggplot2")), I got the same
message as earlier, that R can't load internet.so.

Thanks for your help!

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Tom Wright <tom at maladmin.com> wrote:

> apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-dev
>
> On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 09:36 -0700, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> > I needed to update R so I could install ggplot. I am running Ubuntu
> 12.04.
> > I cannot upgrade Ubuntu because I am using a work computer.
> >
> > I tried upgrading the normal way:
> >
> > sudo apt-get update
> >  sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
> >
> > But this only installed an earlier version. Finally I tried installing
> from
> > source (./configure, Make install). This worked. However, when I try
to
> > install packages, I get this error:
> >
> > Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
> >   internet routines cannot be loaded
> > In addition: Warning message:
> > In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
> >   unable to load shared object
'/usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so':
> >   /usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so: undefined symbol:
> curl_multi_wait
> >
> >
> > >> ls /usr/local/lib/R/modules/
> > >> R_X11.so  R_de.so  internet.so  lapack.so
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > P
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