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Message-ID: <AANLkTinVH7q0Ek0H0u-7pxEorG68A3UMZOePSbLVrV9v@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2010-05-28T07:38:32Z
From: Scott Brogan
Subject: rjags in Ubuntu 10.04
In-Reply-To: <19454.29331.494951.969415@ron.nulle.part>

ldconfig worked a treat.  Thanks Michael & Dirk - I really appreciate your help.

On 27 May 2010 14:24, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 27 May 2010 at 09:06, Michael Rutter wrote:
> |
> |
> | On 05/27/2010 07:31 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | >
> | > On 27 May 2010 at 07:15, Michael Rutter wrote:
> | > |
> | > |
> | > | On 05/27/2010 05:23 AM, Scott Brogan wrote:
> | > |> ?I've not been able to install rjags successfully in Ubuntu 10.04 :
> | > |>
> | > |> ?** 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,
> | > |
> | > | 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.
> | >
> | > 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
> | >
> |
> | 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) ?
>
> --
> ?Regards, Dirk
>