[R] installation problem on Ubuntu

[David Winsemius]

> On Apr 21, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Paul Tremblay <paulhtremblay at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was able to install the curl library with no problems. However, when I
> tried to install ggplot (install.packages("ggplot2")), I got the same
> message as earlier, that R can't load internet.so.

Is the libcurl directory in your search path?

David.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Tom Wright <tom at maladmin.com> wrote:
> 
>> apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-dev
>> 
>> On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 09:36 -0700, Paul Tremblay wrote:
>>> I needed to update R so I could install ggplot. I am running Ubuntu
>> 12.04.
>>> I cannot upgrade Ubuntu because I am using a work computer.
>>> 
>>> I tried upgrading the normal way:
>>> 
>>> sudo apt-get update
>>> sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
>>> 
>>> But this only installed an earlier version. Finally I tried installing
>> from
>>> source (./configure, Make install). This worked. However, when I try to
>>> install packages, I get this error:
>>> 
>>> Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
>>>  internet routines cannot be loaded
>>> In addition: Warning message:
>>> In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
>>>  unable to load shared object '/usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so':
>>>  /usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so: undefined symbol:
>> curl_multi_wait
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> ls /usr/local/lib/R/modules/
>>>>> R_X11.so  R_de.so  internet.so  lapack.so
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> P
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA