[R] Error installing rjags in Ubuntu Linux

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 8 February 2009 at 14:22, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
| See if this helps:http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JAGSInstallExample
| 
| Improvements to this approach are welcomed.

Also note that

     sudo apt-get install jags

works on Debian (so far only unstable) and will probably work for the next
Ubuntu release.

Dirk

| Frank
| 
| 
| Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote:
| > Hi,
| > Here is a step-by-step guide to exactly how I've installed R in Ubuntu:
| > http://www.nabble.com/installing-R-on-Ubuntu-td10025949.html#a21894865
| > 
| > Regarding rjags, here is what happened:
| > 
| > This webpage
| > (http://yusung.blogspot.com/2009/01/install-jags-and-rjags-in-fedora.html)
| > recommends logging into R as sudo R, and then typing:
| > 
| > install.packages("rjags",
| > configure.args="--with-jags-include=/usr/local/include/JAGS
| > --with-jags-lib=/usr/local/lib/JAGS
| > --with-jags-modules=/usr/local/lib/JAGS/modules")
| > 
| > ...but I get...
| > 
| > Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : 
| >   unable to load shared library
| > '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rjags/libs/rjags.so':
| > 
| > ...which is virtually identical to this thread
| > (http://www.nabble.com/unable-to-install-rjags-on-64-bit-Debian-Linux-(etch)-td20404210.html#a20404210)
| > about a 64-bit install.  Although my computer has dual AMD64's, I'm sure
| > it's a 32-bit system.  I have removed rjags with remove.packages("rjags"). 
| > Does anybody know how to install rjags in Ubuntu Linux (I'm specifying it,
| > because I am very new and don't know what I'm doing yet)?  Thanks.
| 
| 
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|                       Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University
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