[R-SIG-Mac] Trouble loading library 'gsl' with R 2.8.0

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:24 , Chen, Gang (NIH/NIMH) [C] wrote:

> After upgrading R from version 2.7.2 to 2.8.0, I have trouble  
> loading library 'gsl' as shown below. What is missing?
>

GNU Scientific Library. We don't have GSL on the CRAN machine and  
somehow some version of the gsl package managed to slip through  
without passing check. I have added GSL to the CRAN machine today, so  
there should be working gsl package binary on CRAN soon.

Thanks,
Simon


>
>
>> install.packages("gsl")
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> trying URL 'http://cran.mirrors.hoobly.com/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.8/gsl_1.8-11.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-tgz' length 1651027 bytes (1.6 Mb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 1.6 Mb
>
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>        /tmp/RtmprM8076/downloaded_packages
>
>
>> library(gsl)
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>  unable to load shared library '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ 
> Resources/library/gsl/libs/i386/gsl.so':
>  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/gsl/libs/ 
> i386/gsl.so, 6): Symbol not found: _gsl_sf_             expint_En_e
>  Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/ 
> gsl/libs/i386/gsl.so
>  Expected in: dynamic lookup
>
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'gsl'
>
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