[Rd] Problem with dyn.load in R 2.13.0 -- the real problem

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 13, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Terry Therneau wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 15:32 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>> Terry,
>> 
>> You replied to
>> 
>>  From: Terry Therneau <therneau at mayo.edu>
>>  To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>>  Cc: cran at r-project.org
>>  Subject: Re: [Rd] Problem with dyn.load in R 2.13.0 -- the real problem
>> 
>> but dropped r-devel. On purpose?
> 
> No, not on purpose.  Corrected.
> 
>> This still looks like a local config issue about local libraries to me.
>> 
>> Dirk
> 
> I fail to see how.  Running the newest release of R 2.13, if I issue a library() command for something installed earlier in R_LIBS_USER, something I expect lots of people to do, and that library has a .so file with reference to the now-nonexistent Rlib.so file, an error ensues.

This depends on the OS - on Linux the path to libR is not embedded in the package's .so, so R will happily try to load whatever libR is current - regardless whether that breaks or not. Again, this is entirely OS-dependent. Also in your case you have an entirely different build of R so your issue is independent of R version - you'd get exactly the same issue if both R builds were 2.12.2.


> This is easy to test elsewhere. 
>  I don't anticipate that every user will erase all libraries and
> reinstall with each new R release.  

Well, then they are entirely on their own. Major releases are not guaranteed to be binary compatible and often they are not. Depending on the subset of the features a package may use it may or may not work, but it is never guaranteed. The first thing any user should do after R upgrade is to run update.packages. But, again, this is not really related to your problem ;). I suppose your admin has forgotten to use --enable-R-shlib when building 2.13.0.

Cheers,
Simon


> At work particularly, the default R
> release changes without user intervention; the system admin is not going
> to go looking for all local downloads.  (A lot of people use
> R_LIBS_USER, as they don't have permission to put things elsewhere --
> this includes me.)
>  The error message for logspline is great as it tells them what to do.
> I'm only looking for a better one in the case I found.
> 
>> 
>> On 13 April 2011 at 15:01, Terry Therneau wrote:
>> | Dirk's comment made it clearer:
>> | 
>> | On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 13:34 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>> | > What does 'ldd /path/to/your/survial.so' say?  Does the system find
>> | > libR.so?
>> | > 
>> | 
>> | tmt1077% pwd
>> | /people/biostat2/therneau/research/surv/Rtest
>> | tmt1078% ldd survival.so
>> |         libR.so => not found
>> |         libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002aede2d94000)
>> |         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00000033cd800000)
>> | 
>> | However, this is a survival.so file created by R12, and that version has
>> | a libR.so in RHOME/lib.  Version R2.13 has no such file.  If I remake
>> | the .so file using R 2.13: then I get
>> | 
>> | tmt1084% ldd survival.so
>> |         libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b656a2f1000)
>> |         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00000033cd800000)
>> | 
>> | And R
>> | 
>> | --------------
>> | 
>> | So, the real problem is a misleading error message.  I have several
>> | pacakges loaded into my own ~/Rlib.  When I access one of these from
>> | version 2.13 I get variable errors, or success.
>> | 
>> | tmt1087% R13 --vanilla
>> | 
>> | R version 2.13.0 RC (2011-04-11 r55409)
>> | Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> | ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>> | Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> | ...
>> | 
>> | > library(logspline)
>> | Error: package 'logspline' was built before R 2.10.0: please re-install
>> | it
>> | 
>> | > library(quadprog)
>> | Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : 
>> |   unable to load shared object
>> | '/people/biostat2/therneau/Rlib/quadprog/libs/quadprog.so':
>> |   libR.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> | Error: package/namespace load failed for 'quadprog'
>> | 
>> | > library(xtable)
>> | >
>> | 
>> | My problem is solved, but is this a "user confuser" issue that should be
>> | addressed in the release?
>> | 
>> | Terry T.
>> | 
>> | 
>> 
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