[R] unable to load shared library '/usr/local/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so'

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, tomkur2006-takehome at yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I downloaded a binary version of R for my Solaris 10 box (from 
> http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc10.html#R), and everything 
> looked fine during the installation.  However, I got a "X11 module 
> cannot be loaded" error when I attempted to save a graph to be a png 
> file.  Does it look like a problem of the Solaris box or a problem of 
> the installation (missing library file)?  Thanks in advance.

Are your library paths correct?  Is your Solaris fullly patched?

libSM.so.6 is part of Solaris, in /usr/openwin/lib.  If that exists, try 
adding /usr/openwin/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH (e.g. in R_HOME/etc/ldpaths).
If not, get it from your Solaris installation discs.


>> png(filename="test.png",height=480, width=640)
> Error in png(filename = "test.png", height = 480, width = 640) :
>  X11 module cannot be loaded
> In addition: Warning message:
> In png(filename = "test.png", height = 480, width = 640) :
>  unable to load shared library '/usr/local/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so':
>  ld.so.1: R: fatal: libSM.so.6: open failed: No such file or directory
>
>
> The file '/usr/local/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so' was physically there.
> -bash-3.00$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin       112152 Oct  5 02:02 /usr/local/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so

But that is not what it says is missing.

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