Hi Dirk,
Thanks for your thoughts.
Rscript seems to work.
I'll used it.
I wish I didn't feel the need to mention this, but
it seems to me that end users should not need to
recompile littler every time a new version of R is
installed.
All the best,
~K
On 02/02/11 21:47, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 2 February 2011 at 18:29, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> | Package: littler
> | Version: 0.1.3-1
> | Severity: normal
> |
> |
> | Hi Dirk,
> |
> | I'm happy to report that r has proven to be a
> | versatile addition to my shell scripts.
>
> Cool.
> |
> | I'd like to humbly report an anomaly.
> |
> | It seems to me that r is looking for libraries in
> | an old path.
> |
> | I recently upgraded from version 2.10 of R to 2.12.
> |
> | However,
> |
> | $ r -e 'print(.libPaths())'
> |
> | showed that r was still looking in
> |
> | /home/kingsley/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.10
>
> Well I never use these 'versioned' paths myself...
>
> | I noticed this when I did
> |
> | $ r -e 'library(the_name_of_a_library_in_2.12_goes_here)'
> |
> | r reported
> |
> | Error in library(the_name_of_a_library_in_2.12_goes_here) : there is no
> package called 'the_name_of_a_library_in_2.12_goes_here'
> | Execution halted
> |
> | It seems to me that r should look in the 2.12
> | subdirectory named
> |
> | /home/kingsley/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12
> |
> | Reinstalling the littler package didn't solve the
> | problem, nor did removing the 2.10 subdirectory.
> |
> | I ran r with the strace utility to see if it
> | opened a file pointing it to the old path.
> |
> | However, it seems to have opened
> |
> | /usr/lib/R/etc//Renviron
> |
> | which says
> |
> | R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12'}
> |
> | which looks right to me.
> |
> | I was unable to ascertain where r got the 2.10
> | from.
> |
> | I'd be interested in your informed thoughts.
>
> In this case you need to rebuild littler from source. These env.vars are
> turned into
> run-time constants.
>
> Dirk
>
> | Thanks,
> | Kingsley
> |
> | -- System Information:
> | Debian Release: lenny/sid
> | APT prefers unstable
> | APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'lenny'), (1, 'experimental')
> | Architecture: i386 (i686)
> |
> | Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> | Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> |
> | Versions of packages littler depends on:
> | ii libatlas3gf-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear
> Algebra
> | ii libblas3gf [libblas.so.3gf] 1.2-8 Basic Linear Algebra Reference
> imp
> | ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared
> lib
> | ii liblapack3gf [liblapack.so.3g 3.2.2-1.2 library of linear algebra
> routines
> | ii r-base-core 2.12.1-1 GNU R core of statistical
> computat
> |
> | littler recommends no packages.
> |
> | Versions of packages littler suggests:
> | pn r-cran-getopt <none> (no description available)
> |
> | -- no debconf information
> |
> |
>
> --
> Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
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