I *think* that this is an R question (and *not* an RStudio question!)
I have, somewhat against my better judgement, decided to experiment with
using RStudio.
I downloaded and install RStudio. Easy-peasy. Nice lucid instructions.
Then I tried to start RStudio ("rstudio" from the command line)
and got a pop-up window with the error message:
R shared library (/usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found. If this
is a custom build of R, was it built with the --enable-R-shlib option?
Oops, no, I guess it wasn't. So I carefully did a
sudo make uninstall
make clean
make distclean
and then did
./R-3.5.1/configure <various flags>
making sure I added the --enable-R-shlib flag.
Then I did make and sudo make install. It all seemed to go ...
but then I did
rstudio
again and got the same popup error.
There is indeed *no* libR.so in /usr/lib64/R/lib.
There *is* a libR.so in /usr/lib/R/lib, but (weirdly) ls -l reveals that
it dates from the my previous install of R-3.5.1 for which I *did not*
configure with --enable-R-shlib.
Can anyone explain to me WTF is going on?
What should I do? Just make a symbolic link from /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so
to /usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so?
It bothers me that /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so was not "refreshed" from my
most recent install of R.
I plead for enlightenment.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P.S. I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. And the previous install of R was done
under Ubuntu 18.04.
R. T.
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