Thank you Prof Ripley for your guidance. I re-installed gpp and SJava installed correctly. I am now running into this problem: When I load the SJava library I get:
> library(SJava) Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : unable to load shared library "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/SJava/libs/SJava.so": libRSNativeJava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error in library(SJava) : .First.lib failed for 'SJava' The file does exit: $ ls -la /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/SJava/libs/SJava.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 283388 Nov 18 13:27 /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/SJava/libs/SJava.so I then ran: $ R CMD ldd /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/SJava/libs/SJava.so libRSNativeJava.so => not found libjvm.so => not found libR.so => /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so (0x40014000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x401df000) libblas.so.3 => /usr/lib/atlas/libblas.so.3 (0x4031a000) libg2c.so.0 => /usr/lib/libg2c.so.0 (0x40663000) libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x40681000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x406a5000) libpcre.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x406ae000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x406be000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x406ce000) libreadline.so.4 => /lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x406df000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0x4070b000) libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4070f000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000) libjvm.so does exist in 4 locations in my intel box running debian: /opt/splus/java/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so /opt/splus/java/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so I have JAVA_HOME defined as: $ echo $JAVA_HOME /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/ Your further help is greatly appreciated. On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:27:53 +0000 (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seem pretty straightforward to me: either gpp is not a C++ compiler or it > does not work (possibly because LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not contain its > run-time libraries). > > > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Yasser El-Zein wrote: > > > I failed to build SJava dure to teh error below. Any ideas? > > > > # R CMD INSTALL -c SJava_0.68-0.tar.gz > > * Installing *source* package 'SJava' ... > > checking for java... /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06//bin/java > > Java VM /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06//bin/java > > checking for javah... /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06//bin/javah > > Looking in /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/include > > Looking in /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_06/include/linux > > checking for g++... no > > checking for c++... no > > checking for gpp... gpp > > checking for C++ compiler default output... b.out > > checking whether the C++ compiler works... configure: error: cannot > > run C++ compiled programs. > > -- > 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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html