[R-sig-Debian] problem with rjags installation in ubuntu 14.04

[Michael Rutter]

On 09/29/2017 04:54 PM, kenrichardson wrote:
> Hello folks
> 
> Earlier versions of jags and rjags installed on my system without any 
> difficulty, but I'm having trouble with jags version 
> 4.3.0-1ubuntu2~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa1 (from Michael Rutter's R ppa) and 
> rjags version 4.6.
> 
> The call to install.packages() I always used successfully now produces 
> the error "cannot link to JAGS library in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu." 
> shown below
> 
> I wondered if the location of jags headers, libraries, and modules om my 
> system might be in non-standard places, so after locating them (with 
> dpkg -L jags and /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep jags - ) I tried
> 
> install.packages("rjags", 
> configure.args="--with-jags-include=/usr/include/JAGS 
> --with-jags-lib=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> --with-jags-modules=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/JAGS/modules-4")
> 
> which unfortunately produced the same result.
> 
> Any advice on how to sort this out would be appreciated. For example I 
> could always try compiling both jags and/or rjags and hardcoding the 
> location of jags libraries, but maybe there's a simpler way.
> 
> sessioninfo() and library() output are also shown below, but if other 
> information is required please let me know
> 
> Regards Ken

Ken,

I experienced something similar in the past couple of days, so I 
recompiled rjags against all the current versions of the other packages. 
  I was able to successfully install r-cran-rjags and use it from the PPA.

Please try installing with apt-get again and let me know if you have any 
issues.

Michael