see inline below. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:34 PM, John C Nash <[email protected]> wrote: > OK. I figured it may be getting late in the LTS cycle. However, I'll be > making two trips > in next 18 days, so don't want to rebuild my laptop just now. It has way too > many > different tools on it that I'm using and have forgotten that they take time > and bandwidth > to install. The folk who want jags runs are just going to have to wait. > > Given I have tried Unity twice and Ubuntu's alternative Gnome once, I think > I'll go to > Mint Mate (Ubuntu based) or else CrunchBang (debian squeeze).
If you don like unity but otherwise like ubuntu, another alternative is lubuntu. I have just installed this and it works very well! lubuntu is ubuntu, but with LXDE desktop http://lxde.org/ LXDE seems also to be based on gtk, so software working with gnome should work there. Kjetil > > JN > > > > On 09/19/2012 09:24 PM, Michael Rutter wrote: >> >> >> On 09/19/2012 09:16 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >>> >>> On 19 September 2012 at 20:38, John C Nash wrote: >>> | I have been having trouble with rjags on Ubuntu 10.04 >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>> >>> You may be on your own here. I would suggest updating to something current, >>> and remaining current -- at least that works for me. On Ubuntu 12.04 it >>> just works: >> >> There is also a numbering issue at work here. Version 3.3-1 is supplied by >> Ubuntu, while >> my PPA has 3-5, a newer version from Martyn, but not for Ubuntu. For apt, >> 3.3 is > 3-5, >> so one solution is to use synaptic to force the install of the more recent >> version and see >> if that fixes the issue, although I would recommend upgrading Ubuntu as the >> first step. >> >> Conveniently, Martyn release version 3-7 of the package Wednesday (9/18), so >> new versions >> will be hitting the PPA shortly, as soon as I resolve the numbering issue. >> >> Michael >> >>> R> library(rjags) >>> Loading required package: coda >>> Loading required package: lattice >>> linking to JAGS 3.2.0 >>> module basemod loaded >>> module bugs loaded >>> R> >>> >>> Using >>> edd@max:~$ COLUMNS=76 dpkg -l | grep jags >>> ii jags 3.2.0-1precise Just Another Gibbs Sampler for >>> Bayesian MCMC >>> ii r-cran-rjags 3.3-1 R interface to the JAGS Bayesian >>> statistics >>> edd@max:~$ >>> >>> | > library(rjags) >>> | Loading required package: coda >>> | Loading required package: lattice >>> | linking to JAGS 3.2.0 >>> | module basemod loaded >>> | Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rjags', details: >>> | call: dyn.load(file) >>> | error: unable to load shared object '/usr/lib/JAGS/modules-3/bugs.so': >>> | /usr/lib/JAGS/modules-3/bugs.so: undefined symbol: fprec >>> | Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘rjags’ >>> | >>> | >>> | > sessionInfo() >>> | R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) >>> | Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >>> | >>> | locale: >>> | [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >>> | [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 >>> | [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >>> | [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C >>> | [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >>> | [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >>> | >>> | attached base packages: >>> | [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >>> | > >>> | >>> | Also I have tried >>> | >>> | > dyn.load("/usr/lib/JAGS/modules-3/bugs.so") >>> | Error in dyn.load("/usr/lib/JAGS/modules-3/bugs.so") : >>> | unable to load shared object '/usr/lib/JAGS/modules-3/bugs.so': >>> | /usr/lib/JAGS/modules-3/bugs.so: undefined symbol: fprec >>> | >>> | After several uninstalls and reinstalls of jags and rjags, I did (as >>> superuser) >>> | >>> | apt-get remove --purge r-base-core >>> >>> Please. R has not bearing here. >>> >>> You have a package out of sorts. Worst, remove the package (here: jags, as >>> 'dpkg -S /usr/lib/JAGS/modules-3/bugs.so' clearly tells you) and install >>> locally. >>> >>> Dirk >>> >>> | apt-get autoremove >>> | >>> | then reinstalled R, then rjags (the Michael Rutter PPA is in my sources >>> list), i.e., >>> | >>> | apt-get install r-base-dev >>> | apt-get install rjags >>> | >>> | (I used the dev to make sure I got some of the tools etc.) >>> | >>> | No joy. >>> | >>> | On crunchbang stattler linux (under VirtualBox), things loaded fine. I >>> haven't tried >>> | actual computations though. (This is a debian squeeze variant.) >>> | >>> | Suggestions welcome, especially about the fprec symbol above. I am >>> planning to upgrade >>> the >>> | 10.04 to something else soon, probably Mint Mate, but wanted to wait a >>> few more weeks to >>> | avoid doing this when having to travel. >>> | >>> | Cheers, JN >>> | >>> | _______________________________________________ >>> | R-SIG-Debian mailing list >>> | [email protected] >>> | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever." George Orwell (1984) _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
