[R] rJava on Debian squeeze (or other versions of Linux)?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 5 August 2011 at 23:19, Barnet Wagman wrote:
| Has anyone successfully installed rJava on Debian squeeze (or any other 
| version of linux)?
| 
| I keep getting the
| 
|     ... (JDK) is missing or not registered in R
| 
| 
| error message when installing the package.
| 
| I've tried running 'R CMD javareconf', setting JAVA_HOME and editing 
| /etc/R/ldpaths by hand, but to no avail.
| 
| The problem might be related to the R_JAVA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH that's set in 
| /etc/R/ldpaths.  Does anyone know what it's supposed to contain?  I 
| haven't been able to find any documentation on it?
| 
| Searching the web, I've found many references to this problem, but no 
| solutions.

a) Did you try 'sudo apt-get install r-cran-rjava'  ?  This is after all
   packaged in Debian

b) The Debian rjava package has 'openjdk-6-jdk' in its Build-Depends, do you
   have that installed if you try to build from source?

c) Next time please post on r-sig-debian.

Dirk
 
| thanks,
| 
| bw
| 
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