Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-25 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Rolf, On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 13:00:34 +1200 Rolf Turner wrote: > On 08/26/2018 02:59 AM, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > > > I am not sure whether I agree. :) > > Huh? Black is white and up is down??? Nope, but as I said, on my machine RStudio and the R installed from the Ubuntu repositories

Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-25 Thread Rolf Turner
On 08/26/2018 02:59 AM, Berwin A Turlach wrote: G'day Rolf, On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 11:20:09 +1200 Rolf Turner wrote: I was pretty sure that the foregoing was a complete red herring. And I was right. I am not sure whether I agree. :) Huh? Black is white and up is down??? I did as

Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-25 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Rolf, On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 11:20:09 +1200 Rolf Turner wrote: > I was pretty sure that the foregoing was a complete red herring. And > I was right. I am not sure whether I agree. :) > I have been told by younger and wiser heads that installing from > source is The Right Thing to Do.

Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Rolf, I noticed this thread started by you as well as a few of the excellent follow-ups. While it conclcuded, allow me a few quick comments: - Some of us go through some effort to provide R on Ubuntu (and Debian) in a reliable and reproducible manner. And it works and is used by many

Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-24 Thread Rolf Turner
-up window with the error message: R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found. If this is a custom build of R, was it built with the --enable-R-shlib option? Oops, no, I guess it wasn't. So I carefully did a sudo make uninstall make clean make distclean an

Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-24 Thread Ista Zahn
nt with > using RStudio. > > I downloaded and install RStudio. Easy-peasy. Nice lucid instructions. > > Then I tried to start RStudio ("rstudio" from the command line) > and got a pop-up window with the error message: > > > R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/li

Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-24 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Peter, On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:45:37 -0700 Peter Langfelder wrote: > The manual, specifically > > https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Installation > > documents this way of choosing the installation directory. Yes, with the caveat that one needs GNU or Solaris

Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-23 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 7:33 AM Berwin A Turlach wrote: > > G'day Rolf, > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 23:34:38 +1200 > Rolf Turner wrote: > > > I guess I should have said --- I did > > > > sudo make prefix=/usr install > > > > which puts stuff into /usr rather than into /usr/local. > > ??? > > I

Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-23 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Rolf, On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 23:34:38 +1200 Rolf Turner wrote: > I guess I should have said --- I did > > sudo make prefix=/usr install > > which puts stuff into /usr rather than into /usr/local. ??? I do not remember ever specifying "prefix=foo" at the make install stage. Not for

Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-23 Thread Berwin A Turlach
n helpful... half of the short-cuts do not seem to work... But it is a nice IDE... > Then I tried to start RStudio ("rstudio" from the command line) > and got a pop-up window with the error message: > > > R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-23 Thread Rolf Turner
On 08/23/2018 11:09 PM, Jan T Kim via R-help wrote: Hi Rolf & All, I haven't built R in a while, but my general expectation of an autotools based build & install would be that the default prefix is /usr/local, rather than /usr. So I'd expect the shared libs in /usr/local/lib,

Re: [R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-23 Thread Jan T Kim via R-help
cid instructions. > > Then I tried to start RStudio ("rstudio" from the command line) > and got a pop-up window with the error message: > > >R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found. If this > >is a custom build of R, was it built with the --enable-R-shli

[R] R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found.

2018-08-23 Thread Rolf Turner
he command line) and got a pop-up window with the error message: R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found. If this is a custom build of R, was it built with the --enable-R-shlib option? Oops, no, I guess it wasn't. So I carefully did a sudo make uninstall make clean make