[R-sig-Debian] KernSmooth not loading in R 2.7.2

J.H.Gove jhgove at unh.edu
Thu Oct 2 21:38:23 CEST 2008


I just upgraded to R 2.7.2 (from 2.7.1) this morning (Ubuntu amd64 
platform). Shortly afterwards, I ran into a problem loading the odesolve 
library, it could not find libRblas.so. I was able to fix this by 
rebuilding odesolve. Now, KernSmooth gives me the same problem...

R> library(KernSmooth)
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
 unable to load shared library 
'/usr/lib/R/library/KernSmooth/libs/KernSmooth.so':
 libRblas.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'KernSmooth'

and (note the "not found" below)...

ldd /usr/lib/R/library/KernSmooth/libs/KernSmooth.so
   linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff3a5fe000)
   libRblas.so => not found
   libgfortran.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.2 (0x00007fb132100000)
   libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fb131e7e000)
   libR.so => /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so (0x00007fb13195e000)
   libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb1315fc000)
   libblas.so.3gf => /usr/lib/libblas.so.3gf (0x00007fb131381000)
   libreadline.so.5 => /lib/libreadline.so.5 (0x00007fb131141000)
   libpcre.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007fb130f1b000)
   libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fb130d03000)
   libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fb130aff000)
   /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb1325d8000)
   libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x00007fb1308c4000)

If I do ldd on odesolve, the libRblas.so line has  been replaced by...

   libblas.so.3 => /usr/lib/libblas.so.3 (0x00007fc518ed6000)

Evidently R 2.7.2 has replaced libRblas.so with libblas.so?

The problem is that I installed odesolve myself, and so could simply 
rebuild it. But KernSmooth comes in the r-recommended packages (which I 
also updated this morning), and is found in /usr/lib/R/library, so I 
don't want to do an install.packages() on it and have it in two places 
(i.e., in /usr/local/lib/R/site-library as well). All of the other 
packages I tried loading in r-recommended worked fine. I assume that 
KernSmooth needs to be rebuilt and repackaged into r-recommended?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Jeff



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