[R-sig-Debian] rJava Broken on Linux + R 3.4

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 26 June 2017 at 10:43, Lorenzo Isella wrote:
| Dear All,
| I think there is something wrong with rJava on any Debian based
| distribution.

It is a Java issue related to a security fix many (most? all?) distros
applied.   

| I may be wrong, but I experiencing exactly the problems mentioned at
| 
| https://github.com/amattioc/SDMX/issues/130
| 
| and at
| 
| https://github.com/s-u/rJava/issues/110
| 
| A couple of packages (RJSDMX and xlsx) are now impossible to install
| on my debian stretch platform running R 3.4.
| 
| It seems I am not the only one experiencing this and it may be due to
| some security patches just released.
| However, if I run on my machine
| 
| > library(rJava)
| > .jinit()
| 
| I get a segmentation fault, though I was able to install rJava, it
| does not seem to work properly.
| Does anyone have a fix for that?

Reading the links you providing it also becomes clear that this is not an
issue with rJava, or Debian -- it is Java, interacting with the kernel.

For now, I would suggest following those discussions.

Dirk

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