[R-sig-Debian] rJava in R 2.8.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

[Leonor Palmeira]

Dear all,

I have had the same problem as stated before, even with SUN's jdk 
installed, and therefore enable to install any of 'iplots', 'rJava' or 
'JGR' packages.
It seemed however that the R CMD javareconf couldn't catch the path of 
my actual jdk.

The following worked for me by forcing the JAVA_HOME environment variable:

env JAVA_HOME=/my/path/to/my/very/own/sun/jdk1.6.0_17 
/my/path/to/my/very/own/favourite/version/of/R-2.10.0/bin/R CMD javareconf

and then, everything runs smoothly for the install of the previous packages.

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Leo.

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Previous Message :

It's almost always the same with failing builds:

On 31 January 2009 at 11:41, Stefan Th. Gries wrote:
[...]
Java home path   : /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre
[...]

This clearly states that you have the JRE -- ie the __run-time__
environment.  The Builds-Depends [1] are for the package openjdk-6-jdk -- ie
the 'java development kit'.  Install that, re-run 'sudo R CMD 
javareconf' and
try again.

Dirk

[1] The second-best thing about having Debian packages, besides giving you
the binaries, is that they give you the essentially fail-safe recipe for
building them, including the list of ingredients encoded in the
Build-Depends: line of debian/control. You get that via the .diff.gz

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