[R] Installing R in Linux: problems with JAVA packages (rJava, RWeka, ...) ?

2008-10-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Paulo Cortez wrote: This is becoming a nightmare and I am concluding that installing java1.6 in CentOS5 is particularly hard, specially if you installed previous jdk versions... If you have multiple versions present, you are going to have problems as the Sun Java release

Re: [R] Installing R in Linux: problems with JAVA packages (rJava, RWeka, ...) ?

2008-10-22 Thread Martyn Plummer
Well this is interesting. I have a working java setup (using OpenJDK). But I can break it by running "R CMD javareconf -e". This command exports a number of JAVA_* environment variables. The rJava configure script uses these instead of querying R, but the compilation then fails. It seems that the

Re: [R] Installing R in Linux: problems with JAVA packages (rJava, RWeka, ...) ?

2008-10-22 Thread Paulo Cortez
Thanks for the many answers I received. This is becoming a nightmare and I am concluding that installing java1.6 in CentOS5 is particularly hard, specially if you installed previous jdk versions... I tryed a wide range of solutions. I resume some of them: 1) Tryed to reinstall jdk1.6 and use

Re: [R] Installing R in Linux: problems with JAVA packages (rJava, RWeka, ...) ?

2008-10-22 Thread Martyn Plummer
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:36 +0100, Paulo Cortez wrote: > Hi, > > While in MacOS it is quite simple to install R and Java packages, the > same is not true for Linux. I surfed the web and it seems that other > users also have similar problems. Perhaps a nice FAQ answer or HOWTO > would help... >

Re: [R] Installing R in Linux: problems with JAVA packages (rJava, RWeka, ...) ?

2008-10-22 Thread Tru Huynh
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:51:13AM -0200, Bernardo Rangel Tura wrote: > Em Ter, 2008-10-21 às 15:36 +0100, Paulo Cortez escreveu: > > Hi, > > > > While in MacOS it is quite simple to install R and Java packages, the > > same is not true for Linux. I surfed the web and it seems that other > > use

Re: [R] Installing R in Linux: problems with JAVA packages (rJava, RWeka, ...) ?

2008-10-21 Thread Bernardo Rangel Tura
Em Ter, 2008-10-21 às 15:36 +0100, Paulo Cortez escreveu: > Hi, > > While in MacOS it is quite simple to install R and Java packages, the > same is not true for Linux. I surfed the web and it seems that other > users also have similar problems. Perhaps a nice FAQ answer or HOWTO > would help...

[R] Installing R in Linux: problems with JAVA packages (rJava, RWeka, ...) ?

2008-10-21 Thread Paulo Cortez
Hi, While in MacOS it is quite simple to install R and Java packages, the same is not true for Linux. I surfed the web and it seems that other users also have similar problems. Perhaps a nice FAQ answer or HOWTO would help... But here is my situation: I have 2 linux servers, one with Fedora