rjags in Ubuntu 10.04

On 27 May 2010 at 09:06, Michael Rutter wrote:
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| On 05/27/2010 07:31 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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| > On 27 May 2010 at 07:15, Michael Rutter wrote:
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| > | On 05/27/2010 05:23 AM, Scott Brogan wrote:
| > |> ?I've not been able to install rjags successfully in Ubuntu 10.04 :
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| > |> ?** testing if installed package can be loaded
| > |> ?Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rjags', details:
| > |> ? ? call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
| > |> ? ? error: unable to load shared library
| > |> ?'/home/scott/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11/rjags/libs/rjags.so':
| > |> ? ? libjags.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
| > |> ?ERROR: loading failed
| > |>
| > |> ?I've tried with different versions of both JAGS& ? rjags; lastly with R
| > |> ?2.11.0, JAGS 2.1.0,& ? rjags_2.1.0-4. Could anyone help ?
| > |>
| > |
| > | Scott,
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| > | I also had trouble installing rjags in 10.04. ?I got the same error you
| > | did, even though I could see the .so files. ?The fix (I think, I tried
| > | lots of things) was to run 'ldconfig', then launch R and install the
| > | package. ?Apparently, my jags install did not update the libraries.
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| > Excellent -- bug in my package as I do 'catch-all' package jags (as opposed
| > to libjags, libjags-dev, ...) and use packaging default so this got omitted.
| >
| > Will fix. ?Thanks for catching that, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
| >
| > Dirk
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| I do need to point out that I installed jags from the source files
| (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcmc-jags/files/). ?Then I installed
| rjags from within R, after I did the 'ldconfig' command.

Ack, and my bad -- I should have checked.

The packaging is much smarter than I gave it credit for and _does_ of course
include a call to ldconfig in its postinst. ?So maybe next time you want to
try 'apt-get source -b jags' (after adding a deb-src entry that points to
unstable to your /etc/apt/sources.list) ?

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?Regards, Dirk