R SIG Debian - Nov 2016 - libgsl.so.0

I have just upgraded to the latest R (3.3.2) and thought I should update 
my library of contributed packages.

Ran into problems with "copula".  Got the error:
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>   unable to load shared object '/home/rolf/Rlib/gsl/libs/gsl.so':
>   libgsl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So after a bit of googling around I did:

     sudo apt-get install libgsl2
     sudo apt-get install libgsl-dev

both of which ran successfully.

Still no joy, but.  What *else* do I need to do?

I am running Ubuntu 16.04.1.

cheers,

Rolf


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Did you reinstall the gsl package [1]?


-Kirill


[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gsl/index.html


On 01.11.2016 04:17, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> I have just upgraded to the latest R (3.3.2) and thought I should 
> update my library of contributed packages.
>
> Ran into problems with "copula".  Got the error:
>
>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>   unable to load shared object
'/home/rolf/Rlib/gsl/libs/gsl.so':
>>   libgsl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
>
> So after a bit of googling around I did:
>
>     sudo apt-get install libgsl2
>     sudo apt-get install libgsl-dev
>
> both of which ran successfully.
>
> Still no joy, but.  What *else* do I need to do?
>
> I am running Ubuntu 16.04.1.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf
>
>

On 01/11/16 21:08, Kirill M?ller wrote:
> Did you reinstall the gsl package [1]?
Apparently not.  I did a complete update.packages() which reinstalled a
great number of packages (I have a great number in my personal library).
There were complaints about 4 packages, one of which was "copula", but
"gsl" was not one of them.

I would have *thought* that if "gsl" needed to be reinstalled, then 
update.packages() would have done this.

It also makes no sense to me --- the install of "copula" complained 
about not being able to find a shared object library (presumably of
fortran or C or some such code), not about being unable to load "gsl".

Be that as it were, I did an install (a reinstall) of "gsl"
successfully
and then the install of copula was also smooth and successful.

Thanks.

cheers,

Rolf Turner
> -Kirill
>
>
> [1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gsl/index.html
>
>
> On 01.11.2016 04:17, Rolf Turner wrote:
>>
>> I have just upgraded to the latest R (3.3.2) and thought I should
>> update my library of contributed packages.
>>
>> Ran into problems with "copula".  Got the error:
>>
>>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>>   unable to load shared object
'/home/rolf/Rlib/gsl/libs/gsl.so':
>>>   libgsl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
>>
>> So after a bit of googling around I did:
>>
>>     sudo apt-get install libgsl2
>>     sudo apt-get install libgsl-dev
>>
>> both of which ran successfully.
>>
>> Still no joy, but.  What *else* do I need to do?
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu 16.04.1.