[R] ROracle package error

[David James]

Rado Bonk wrote:
> Dear R-users,
> 
> In order to use ROracle (v. 0.5-5) package I compiled R-1.9.1 on Linux 
> (2.4.20-28.9smp) and installed it. I need to use Oracle9i on Solaris. 
> When executing "library(ROracle)" I got the following error message:
> 
>  > library(ROracle)
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
> unable to load shared library
> /home/bonkrad/bin/R/lib/R/library/ROracle/libs/ROracle.so":
> /home/bonkrad/bin/R/lib/R/library/ROracle/libs/ROracle.so: undefined 
> symbol: sqlca

This clearly cannot be an R problem: the undefined symbol is clearly
an Oracle one.  It's possibly an Oracle misconfiguration problem,
but you may need to read the various README's in the source ROracle
distribution (simply untar the source tar file into a temporary
directory and look at the "ROracle/inst" subdirectory.)

Hope this helps,

--
David
> Error in library(ROracle) : .First.lib failed
> 
> What is wrong? Is an error on ROracle side or on R side?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Rado
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Radoslav Bonk
> European Commission - DG Joint Research Centre (JRC)
> Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
> LM Unit - Natural Hazards
> Weather Driven Natural Hazards Action
> Via E. Fermi, TP 261, 21020 Ispra (Va), Italy
> Tel.: 0039-0332-786013
> Fax: 0039-0332-786653
> Webpage: http://natural-hazards.jrc.it/floods/
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html