[BioC] unable to load shared library

Weiwei Shi helprhelp at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 22:39:27 CEST 2007


Hi,

I happened to have the same problem a couple of days ago on my mac ox
(probably you found that question too). I just provide my solution
here: just simply re-install R. :)

Also, I suggest you to ask this type of question in R-list instead of
bioconductor.

HTH,

Weiwei

On 4/15/07, Ñî Åô³Ì <pengchy1981 at yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
> hi,all
>
>   I run R & Bioconductor on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9(x86_64)
>   The R is complied from the source file R-2.4.1.tar.gz, and the used packages are all installed from the source file with the command:
>
>    >install.packages("/bwdata/bdb/pengchy/R/library/package.tar.gz",repos=NULL)
>
>   What confused me is several packages can't be installed because the depend package can't be loaded. Take 'siggenes' package for example:
>
>   > install.packages("/bwdata/bdb/pengchy/R/library/siggenes_1.8.0.tar.gz",repos=NULL)
>
> * Installing *source* package 'siggenes' ...
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Loading required package: multtest
> Loading required package: Biobase
> Loading required package: tools
>   Welcome to Bioconductor
>       Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type
>     'openVignette()' or start with 'help(Biobase)'. For details
>     on reading vignettes, see the openVignette help page.
>   Loading required package: survival
> Loading required package: splines
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
>         unable to load shared library '/bwdata/bdb/pengchy/R-2.4.1/library/multtest/libs/multtest.so':
>   /bwdata/bdb/pengchy/R-2.4.1/library/multtest/libs/multtest.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Error: package 'multtest' could not be loaded
> Execution halted
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'siggenes'
> ** Removing '/bwdata/bdb/pengchy/R-2.4.1/library/siggenes'
> Warning message:
> installation of package '/bwdata/bdb/pengchy/R/library/siggenes_1.8.0.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages("/bwdata/bdb/pengchy/R/library/siggenes_1.8.0.tar.gz",
>
>   when I load 'multtest'  following is the returned message:
>
>   >library(multtest)
>   Loading required package: survival
> Loading required package: splines
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
>         unable to load shared library '/home/bdb/pengchy/R-2.4.1/library/multtest/libs/multtest.so':
>   /home/bdb/pengchy/R-2.4.1/library/multtest/libs/multtest.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'multtest'
>
>   The same problem happen to some other packages, such as: 'vsn', 'akima',etc.
>
>   Some one meet the same problem on Mac OX, and "created a symlink (from libs/multtest.so to libs/ppc/multtest.so)", but it doesn't work on SUSE.
>
>   Anyone can help me will be appreciated!
>
>
> Best wishes!
>
>                                                               Sincerely, pengcheng
>
>
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