[R-SIG-Mac] Unable to load local library via GUI

Simon Urbanek simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Tue Oct 4 18:31:49 CEST 2011


On Oct 3, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Noel Faux wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> 
> Thanks for the info. However, following the download links from the R-project home page, the only available binary on the Australian mirrors are R 2.13.1. Should I use http://r.research.att.com/R-2.13-branch-leopard.pkg?
> 

You can, but simply pick a more up-to-date mirror or the main CRAN site. FWIW the master server for Mac releases is 
http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx

Cheers,
Simon


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> On 04/10/2011, at 2:05 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
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>> Noel,
>> 
>> the package uses BLAS and your R is setup to build against vecLib BLAS which has bad ID so anything linked against it will have trouble finding libRblas. The simple fix is to switch to R BLAS instead of vecLib BLAS (see R for Mac FAQ 12.5). Alternatively update to R 2.13.2, the issue has been fixed in the CRAN binary distribution of R 2.13.2.
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>> Cheers,
>> Simon
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>> On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Noel Faux wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I have an interesting issue specific to the Mac R.app, but not to the command line R or Rstudio.
>>> I have looked through the archive, however most of the threads seem to be for std packages, and further, most of what is said is a little beyond me, so any help with the problem below would be really appreciated.
>>> 
>>> I have a locally developed library (libmlalgs), which I am able to install via the command line:
>>> sudo R64 CMD INSTALL libmlalgs
>>> In the /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/libmlalgs there is a .so file
>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/libmlalgs/libs/x86_64/libmlalgs.so
>>> 
>>> This runs and installs OK.
>>> I am able to run R64 in the command line and load the libmlalgs library fine :)
>>> I am able to use Rstudio and load the libmlalgs library fine.
>>> 
>>> However, when using the R64.app and try and load the library within the GUI I am getting the following error:
>>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : 
>>> unable to load shared object '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/libmlalgs/libs/x86_64/libmlalgs.so':
>>> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/libmlalgs/libs/x86_64/libmlalgs.so, 6): Library not loaded: libRblas.dylib
>>> Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/libmlalgs/libs/x86_64/libmlalgs.so
>>> Reason: image not found
>>> Error in library(libmlalgs) : .First.lib failed for 'libmlalgs'
>>> 
>>> I know the libmlalgs.so is in the right place and the permissions look OK:
>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  58384  3 Oct 14:30 libmlalgs.so
>>> 
>>> So I am stumped as to why the GUI is unable to read the file.
>>> 
>>> Any pointers would very welcome. As I am a textmate user and it passes the code to the R64.app, I currently stuck with either command line or Rstudio (it's nice but is currently missing some key features textmate has)
>>> 
>>> Specs:
>>> Running Mac OSX 10.7.1
>>> R version 2.13.1 Patched (2011-08-14 r56741)
>>> Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>>> 
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Noel Faux
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