[R] RJava lib error

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Vahid Pazirandeh wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I recently install R-1.2.3 and Omegahat SJava pkg
> (formely Java pkg) 0.62 and tried running the examples
> by issuing "scripts/RJava --example --gui=none" and I
> got the following:
>
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local),
> as.logical(now)) :
>         unable to load shared library
> "/usr/lib/R/library/ctest/libs/ctest.so":
>   ld.so.1:
> /usr/java1.2/bin/../jre/bin/../bin/sparc/native_threads/java:
> fatal: relocation error: file
> /usr/lib/R/library/ctest/libs/ctest.so: symbol MAIN__:
> referenced symbol not found
> [omegahat->R]
> SIGSEGV   11*  segmentation violation
>
>
> I've been trying to figure this problem out for a
> while, but I haven't had any luck yet.  This occurs
> for any R-Java program I run.. i install it onto two
> different machines and they both yielded the same
> errors:
>
> 1) 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
> 2) 5.7 Generic_106541-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2

Solaris, right?

> Any assistance would be much appreciated.. I am truely
> a newbie!

Something is wrong with your R build, I think, as on my Solaris 2.7
system MAIN__ is not a symbol in ctest.so.

As a temporary fix, alter R_HOME/library/base/R/Rprofile to omit

.First <- function() {
    require("ctest", quietly=TRUE)
}

adn see if this allows you to proceed.


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