[R-sig-Debian] Is the R package for Ubuntu compiled as a shared library?

[Luís de Sousa]

Thank you very much Dirk.

Luís

On 11 August 2014 18:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 11 August 2014 at 17:37, Luís de Sousa wrote:
> | Dear all,
> |
> | I have R 3.1.1 installed on Ubuntu 14.04 from the CRAN repo. Days ago
> | I decided to give a try to the Eclipse extension for R (StatET). This
> | extension requires the R packages "rj" and "rj.gd", but these fail to
> | install no matter what. There is a long thread going on at the StatET
> | mail-list, the latest details in this message:
> |
> | http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.eclipse.statet/165
> |
> | Yesterday a user sent a message saying he encountered the same error
> | after compiling R without the shared library flag (--enable-R-shlib):
> |
> | http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.eclipse.statet/168
> |
> | So the question comes down to: is the R version packaged for Ubuntu
> | 14.04 compiled with this option or not?
>
> Yes:
>
> edd at max:~$ ldd /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R  | head -2
>         linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffcadd2000)
>         libR.so => /usr/lib/libR.so (0x00007fa1e1379000)
> edd at max:~$
>
> It has been a shared library build since "forever". We used this fact with
> other embedding solution (eg rkward, RInside, littler, ...)
>
> | Any other hints that may help solving this problem are also welcome.
>
> You may need to work with the StatET folks.
>
> Dirk
>
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