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I don't see libR.so in my installation directory

4 messages · Tena Sakai, cls59, Dirk Eddelbuettel

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cls59
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Tena Sakai wrote:
little r... do you mean the scripting front end for R? If so, the core
utility Rscript is probably installed (it was added in 2.5.0 I believe) and
provides the functionality of little r, including hash-bang lines. Check the
bin folder in the R installation.

If you are talking about something different, ignore this message :)

-Charlie

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Charlie Sharpsteen
Undergraduate
Environmental Resources Engineering
Humboldt State University
Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On 8 May 2009 at 16:17, Tena Sakai wrote:
| Maybe I know the answer to my own question.
| When I built R 2.9.0, I didn't say:
| 
|   ./configure --enable-R-shlib
| 
| I know I have given "--prefix" flag, but that's
| the only flag I used.
| 
| I would appreciate it, if someone would give me
| a definitive answer, however.

You found the answer. "littler" aka 'r' embeds R by loading the shared
library --- the libR.so you were looking for.

Unless you have R build with --enable-R-shlib, you will not be able to use r,
or for that matter other users of embedded R.

Hope this helps, Dirk

 
| Regards,
| 
| Tena Sakai
| tsakai at gallo.ucsf.edu
| 
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of Tena Sakai
| Sent: Fri 5/8/2009 4:07 PM
| To: r-help at r-project.org
| Subject: [R] I don't see libR.so in my installation directory
|  
| Hi,
| 
| I installed R 2.9.0 a couple of days ago on a
| linux machine.  At the root of installation,
| I see 4 directories: bin, lib64, share, and src.
| 
| I don't see libR.so anywhere.  (In the following
| context, . (dot) indicates the root of my insta-
| llation.)  I do see:
| ./lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
| ./lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so
| 
| I became aware of such as I was preparing for
| an installation of little r.  The installation
| material stated to look for libR.so, and I want
| to make sure that the one I installed (2.9.0)
| is used by little r.
| 
| Would someone please clue me in?  Why don't I
| have libR.so and yet when I execute ./bin/R
| it says:
|   R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
| 
| Regards,
| 
| Tena Sakai
| tsakai at gallo.ucsf.edu
| 
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