Kyle,
On 27 January 2011 at 10:45, Kyle Covington wrote:
| Hello,
|
| (Ubuntu system)
|
| Sometimes when I try; import rpy2.robjects as ro
| I get the error libR.so not found.
|
| I have seen this posted on several lists as a problem with the solution that I
| need to tell rpy2 where libR.so is. It is in /usr/lib/R/lib/ which is where
| os.environ thinks it should be.
|
| Is there a definitive solution for this. It seems to occur on some systems
| but not others. Is there some patch that can be made to
| rpy3.rinterface.__init__.py that would help rpy2 to better find libR.so? I
| see on the Windows block that it adds R/lib to the path explicitly, might this
| also be possible in a linux system?
R needs to be configured and built with the --enable-R-shlib option.
One way to ensure this is to use the Ubuntu builds, either from the distro
release or (preferably as it gets you newer R releases) from CRAN. See
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
Dirk
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