[R] installing Rgraphviz under fedora 5

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The problem is that libgvc.so.3 is not in your dynamic library search 
path.  That's true by default for FC5, it is in /usr/lib64/graphviz on a 
x86_64 FC5 box.

The proper solution is to fix the FC5 graphviz installation to tell ld.so 
about the location.  A simpler way is to add /usr/lib64/graphviz to the 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH: on our servers we have edited R_HOME/etc/ldpaths to do 
so, so we have

: ${R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${R_HOME}/lib:/usr/local/lib64:/opt/export/lib64:/usr/lib6
4/graphviz}

If you don't have permissions to do this, set it in your personal 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.


BTW, asking questions about installing Bioconductor is best done on their 
mailing list, not R-help.

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, marco.R.help marco.R.help wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I have a lot of troubles installing Rgraphviz.
> I installed graphviz 2.13 from  "graphviz-2.13.20061222.0540.tar"
> I installed the library Rgraphviz
>
>> getBioC("Rgraphviz")
> Running biocinstall version 2.0.8 with R version 2.5.0
> Your version of R requires version 2.0 of Bioconductor.
> trying URL '
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.0/bioc/src/contrib/Rgraphviz_1.14.0.tar.gz
> '
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1522949 bytes
>
> etc etc....
>
> but when I do: library(Rgraphviz)
>
>> library(Rgraphviz)
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
>        unable to load shared library '/home/jke/mazu/SOFTWARE_INST/R-2.5.0
> /library/Rgraphviz/libs/Rgraphviz.so':
>  libgvc.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'Rgraphviz'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Rgraphviz'
>
> The path to Rgraphviz.so is correct !
>
> Can someone help with this?
>
> this is the session info ....
>
>
> regards
>
> Marco
>
>
>> sessioninfo()
> Error: could not find function "sessioninfo"
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "tools"     "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "datasets"  "utils"
> [7] "methods"   "base"
>
> other attached packages:
> geneplotter     lattice    annotate     Biobase       graph
>   "1.14.0"    "0.15-4"    "1.14.1"    "1.14.0"    "1.14.2"
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