[R] ROracle error

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Sabrina Carpentier wrote:

> I am running R 2.0.0 on a SunOs 5.9 machine and using Oracle 8i.1.7.0.0 (enterprise edition)
>
> and when I  try to load ROracle I receive the following error:
>
> "require(ROracle)
> Loading required package: ROracle
> Loading required package: DBI
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
>        unable to load shared library "/bioinfo/local/R/lib/R/library/ROracle/libs/ROracle.so":
>  ld.so.1: /bioinfo/local/R/lib/R/bin/exec/R: fatal: relocation error: file /bioinfo/local/R/lib/R/library/ROracle/libs/ROracle.so: symbol ncrov: referenced symbol not found
> [1] FALSE"

It's not an R issue, so please ask your sysadmins for help.  But

ldd /bioinfo/local/R/lib/R/library/ROracle/libs/ROracle.so

would be a good start as I suspect your Oracle client libraries are not 
being found.

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