It is not an R issue but a bash issue: it is sh not R that is reporting the error. It might be that the paths R sets are part of the problem: are you sure there is no libreadline in /usr/local/lib, for example?
Earlier versions of readline are static libraries, precisely to avoid this kind of problem. On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Ulrich Flenker wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > > This looks like a readline version problem for the shell /bin/sh > > (presumably actually bash) you have installed. Do you have an older > > version of readline somewhere on your system? > > > > Thanks for the quick reply! > > /bin/sh is a symbolic link to /bin bash. 'ldd /bin/bash' gives: > > libreadline.so.4 => /lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x4002f000) > libhistory.so.4 => /lib/libhistory.so.4 (0x4005c000) > libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40063000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x400a9000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x400ad000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) > > > In directory /lib there is libreadline.so.4, which is a symbolic link to > libreadline.so.4.3. I didn't find any other candidates for > readline-libraries on my system. How to proceed? Should I transfer old > readline-files from my old box? No! > Which readline-versions is R known to work with? Writing these lines, I > think I remember this was an issue on this list some time ago. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
