[R-sig-Debian] rjags in Ubuntu 10.04

[Michael Rutter]

On 05/27/2010 07:31 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 27 May 2010 at 07:15, Michael Rutter wrote:
> |
> |
> | On 05/27/2010 05:23 AM, Scott Brogan wrote:
> |>  I've not been able to install rjags successfully in Ubuntu 10.04 :
> |>
> |>  ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> |>  Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rjags', details:
> |>     call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
> |>     error: unable to load shared library
> |>  '/home/scott/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11/rjags/libs/rjags.so':
> |>     libjags.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> |>  ERROR: loading failed
> |>
> |>  I've tried with different versions of both JAGS&   rjags; lastly with R
> |>  2.11.0, JAGS 2.1.0,&   rjags_2.1.0-4. Could anyone help ?
> |>
> |
> | Scott,
> |
> | I also had trouble installing rjags in 10.04.  I got the same error you
> | did, even though I could see the .so files.  The fix (I think, I tried
> | lots of things) was to run 'ldconfig', then launch R and install the
> | package.  Apparently, my jags install did not update the libraries.
>
> Excellent -- bug in my package as I do 'catch-all' package jags (as opposed
> to libjags, libjags-dev, ...) and use packaging default so this got omitted.
>
> Will fix.  Thanks for catching that, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
>
> Dirk
>

I do need to point out that I installed jags from the source files 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcmc-jags/files/).  Then I installed 
rjags from within R, after I did the 'ldconfig' command.

Michael

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