[R-sig-Debian] rkward on Ubuntu heron with R2.8.0

[Michael Rutter]

Duncan,

The current version of rkward is broken under R 2.8.0.  The rkward 
developers are aware of this and I believe they have a fix, but the fix 
has not been applied to the code used to compile Ubunutu packages.  We 
provide the rkward package on an experimental basis, and this falls 
under the experiment portion of the process.

I would recommend heading over to the rkward website/mailing lists and 
inquiring about the status of the fix.  You may also consider compiling 
rkward from source yourself, using the emails in the rkward-devel as a 
guide around the problem.

Michael

Duncan Golicher wrote:
> I am running R on Ubuntu Heron.
> 
> I recently updated to R 2.8.0 from the default (2.6) in the Ubuntu heron 
> repository by adding
> deb http://cran.stat.sfu.ca/bin/linux/ubuntu hardy/
> I updated all packages installed in /usr/lib/R/site-library and those in 
> my home directory  /home/duncan/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6
> without obvious issues. I installed adehabitat and gpclib, which should 
> be good tests as they depend on the Matrix package. However I have now 
> lost the use of rkward.
> 
> rkward
> /usr/bin/rkward.bin
> error while loading shared libraries: libRlapack.so: cannot open shared 
> object file: No such file or directory
> 
> I tried adding a backport repository
> 
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted 
> universe multiverse
> 
> Didn't help. I can't find anything else wrong. This list seems to be the 
> best place to ask. Does anyone know how to get rkward working with R2.8.0?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Duncan
> 
> 

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