[R-sig-eco] R 2.7.2 Issues

[Gavin Simpson]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 12:36 -0400, Josh Stumpf wrote:
> I'm not sure if this question is more appropriate here or in the Ubuntu
> forums, but I'm willing to try anything at this point.
> This morning I upgraded to 2.7.2 via the Ubuntu package repository, and now
> when I go to run R via the command line it fails to start, giving the
> following error:
> 
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>   unable to load shared library
> '/home/jstumpf/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.7/kernlab/libs/kernlab.so':
>   libRlapack.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this? Any solutions?

Hmm,

Kernlab is not a recommended package in R, so I suspect R is loading a
previously saved workspace that contains an object or environment that
requires kernlab and that has gotten broken since you updated.

Does entering the following at the console start R:

R --vanilla 

If so, at least you can get R working. Even if this works, follow
Tyler's advice and ask on the debian SIG for R as I suspect you'll want
to solve the kernlab issue.

HTH

G
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