[R] about the possible errors in Rgraphviz Package

HU,ZHENGJUN hhu at ufl.edu
Wed Mar 31 00:06:06 CEST 2010


Hi Martin,

  I am 100% sure that I set my 'PATH' environment variable 
correctly because all other packages can loaded correctly as well 
as because R can be run correctly under both MS DOS and MS Windows 
XP. Also, I can create some simple R packages correctly.

  Thanks.
  Howard


On Tue Mar 30 16:58:55 EDT 2010, Martin Morgan 
<mtmorgan at fhcrc.org> wrote:

> On 03/30/2010 01:13 PM, HU,ZHENGJUN wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>> 
>>  I uninstalled graphviz-2.26.3.msi and then installed
>> graphviz-2.20.3.1.msi. Then installed the
>> Rgraphviz package again. As expected, I got the same error 
>> messages as
>> before:
>> 
>> "Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>>  unable to load shared library
>> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.1/library/Rgraphviz/libs/Rgraphviz.dll':
>>  LoadLibrary failure:  The specified module could not be found."
> 
> 'LoadLibrary' is being vague, the 'specified modules' are the 
> DLLs from
> graphviz.
> 
> Have you checked that your 'PATH' environment variable is set 
> correctly?
> In R
> 
>   > strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), ";")
> $PATH
>  ...
>  [14] "C:\\Program Files\\Graphviz2.20\\bin"
> ...
> 
> The relevant files in this directory might look like
> 
>> list.files(strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), ";")[[1]][[14]], "dll")
>  [1] "iconv.dll"                      "intl.dll"
>  [3] "jpeg62.dll"                     "libcairo-2.dll"
>  [5] "libcdt-4.dll"                   "libcgraph-4.dll"
>  [7] "libexpat.dll"                   "libfontconfig-1.dll"
>  [9] "libfreetype-6.dll"              "libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll"
> [11] "libglib-2.0-0.dll"              "libgmodule-2.0-0.dll"
> [13] "libgobject-2.0-0.dll"           "libgraph-4.dll"
> [15] "libgvc-4.dll"                   "libgvplugin_core-5.dll"
> [17] "libgvplugin_dot_layout-5.dll"   "libgvplugin_gd-5.dll"
> [19] "libgvplugin_neato_layout-5.dll" "libgvplugin_pango-5.dll"
> [21] "libltdl-3.dll"                  "libpango-1.0-0.dll"
> [23] "libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll"        "libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll"
> [25] "libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll"        "libpathplan-4.dll"
> [27] "libpng12.dll"                   "libxml2.dll"
> 
> Martin
> 
>> 
>>  Thank you.
>>  Howard
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue Mar 30 15:36:05 EDT 2010, Martin Morgan 
>> <mtmorgan at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 03/30/2010 10:24 AM, HU,ZHENGJUN wrote:
>>>> Hi Duncan,
>>>> 
>>>>> (They are pretty hard to find, but I think you can find them 
>>>>> on the
>>>>> Bioconductor site.)  It is > not enough to install the Rgraphviz
>>>>> package, you also need to install Graphviz.
>>>> 
>>>>  Yes I did. Before installing the Rgraphviz package 
>>>> successfully, (1) I
>>>> downloaded graphviz-2.26.3.msi for MS Windows (XP) and 
>>>> installed it
>>>> successfully and (2) I also installed the packages from 
>>>> Bioconductor by:
>>>> (Note: I use MS Windows XP and R 2.10.1 version)
>>> 
>>> This is a bioconductor package so please ask on the 
>>> Bioconductor mailing
>>> list
>>> 
>>> http://bioconductor.org/docs/mailList.html
>>> 
>>> See the 'README' file in the 'tar.gz' file at
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/Software.html
>>>   http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.5/bioc/html/Rgraphviz.html
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.5/bioc/src/contrib/Rgraphviz_1.24.0.tar.gz
>>> 
>>> 
>>> which says
>>> 
>>> 
>>> o. install Graphviz ***2.20.3.1*** Windows ***binary*** 
>>> distribution from
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.graphviz.org/pub/graphviz/stable/windows/graphviz-2.20.3.1.msi
>>> 
>>> you must use this version of graphviz. File paths must be 
>>> correct.
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>>>> biocLite()
>>>> 
>>>>  I got those error messages:
>>>> 
>>>> "Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>>>>  unable to load shared library
>>>> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.1/library/Rgraphviz/libs/Rgraphviz.dll':
>>>>   LoadLibrary failure:  The specified module could not be found."
>>>> 
>>>>  Obviously, it seems it is the package problem because it 
>>>> should go to
>>>> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.10.1/library/Rgraphviz/libs/Rgraphviz.dll' 
>>>> instead of
>>>> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.1/library/Rgraphviz/libs/Rgraphviz.dll'
>>>> 
>>>>  Thank you for the reply. Howard
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue Mar 30 12:50:44 EDT 2010, Duncan Murdoch 
>>>> <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 30/03/2010 10:44 AM, HU,ZHENGJUN wrote:
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   I tried to install the package of Rgraphviz in the 
>>>>>> following two
>>>>>> ways successfully:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>>>>>> biocLite("Rgraphviz")
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> install.packages(pkgs="C:/Progra~1/R/lib_download/Rgraphviz_1.24.0.zip",
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> lib="C:/Progra~1/R/R-2.10.1/library", repos=NULL)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> but when I loaded the package though library(Rgraphviz) or
>>>>>> library("Rgraphviz"), and got the same error message below:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>>>>>>   unable to load shared library
>>>>>> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.1/library/Rgraphviz/libs/Rgraphviz.dll':
>>>>>>   LoadLibrary failure:  The specified module could not be found."
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Most likely the problem is that you haven't followed the 
>>>>> installation
>>>>> instructions.  (They are pretty hard to find, but I think you 
>>>>> can find
>>>>> them on the Bioconductor site.)  It is not enough to install the
>>>>> Rgraphviz package, you also need to install Graphviz.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>>> I think that it is the error in the package because it 
>>>>>> should go to
>>>>>> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.10.1/library/Rgraphviz/libs/Rgraphviz.dll' 
>>>>>> instead
>>>>>> of 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.1/library/Rgraphviz/libs/Rgraphviz.dll'
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Could anyone help me to solve to problem?
>>>>>> Thank you very much for the help. Howard
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ______________________________________________
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>>>>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible 
>>>>>> code.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- HU,ZHENGJUN
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- Martin Morgan
>>> Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
>>> 1100 Fairview Ave. N.
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>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- HU,ZHENGJUN
>> 
> 
> 
> -- Martin Morgan
> Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
> 1100 Fairview Ave. N.
> PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109
> 
> Location: Arnold Building M1 B861
> Phone: (206) 667-2793
> 
> 



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