[R] unable to install rjags on 64-bit Debian Linux (etch)

[Roger Levy]

Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> 
> On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:31:01 -0800,
> Roger Levy <rlevy at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
>> While I have been able to install rjags on my Windows computer, oddly
>> I have been unable to install rjags successfully on my 64-bit Linux
>> compute server (etch, Linux kernel 2.6.18).  I am required to specify
>> the JAGS module directory upon installation; when doing this within R,
>> I get:
> 
>> install.packages("rjags",configure.args="--with-jags-modules=/usr/local/lib/JAGS/modules/")
> 
>> which works fine, but then trying to load rjags gives an error:
> 
>>> library(rjags)
>> \Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load
>> shared library /usr/local/lib64/R/library/rjags/libs/rjags.so':
>> libjags.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> directory Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'rjags' Error:
>> package/namespace load failed for 'rjags'
> 
>> I'm not sure how to read this error.  Does anyone have any
>> suggestions?
> 
> 
> In addition to the other suggestions, keep an eye out on the jags Debian
> package (thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel), which should hit the etch
> distribution soon hopefully (in sid now). Once installed, you don't (at
> least I didn't) need to pass any 'configure.args' to install.packages().

Many thanks for the heads-up, Sebastian -- I will keep an eye out.

Roger


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