[R] problem on upgrading to RH6.2 (was problem with ts pack

[Jari Oksanen]

plummer at iarc.fr said:
> On 24-May-00 Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Christian Posse wrote:
>  >>  >> I just encountered a problem with the ts package: >>  >> >
> library(ts) >> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local),
> as.logical(now)) : >>         unable to load shared library >> "/usr/
> local/lib/R/library/ts/libs/ts.so": >>   /usr/local/lib/R/library/ts/
> libs/ts.so: undefined symbol: ma >
> ... >
> I have no idea what is going on: ma is not a symbol in the ts package,
> so the problem is definitely elsewhere. We do know that this works
> correctly when compiled and run on an RH6.2 system.

> I'm afraid dlerror() can return garbage on RH6.2 so the "undefined
> symbol: ma" message is probably not helpful.

> The latest R RPM for Red Hat Linux is compiled on RH6.2 and works
> fine. I suggest you try that. 

I have similar problems with R 1.0.1 on RH6.2 (pre-compiled rpm binaries). 
Some of the old packages ceased to work and when I tried to re-install them 
through `R INSTALL package.tar.gz', some just fail and give similar error 
messages. My `ts' works, but it is of the old original version, and I don't 
dare to check if it stops working after re-installation. However, re-installed 
`tripack' gives the following error message:

 > library(tripack)
Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : 
	unable to load shared library "/usr/lib/R/library/tripack/libs/tripack.so":
  /usr/lib/R/library/tripack/libs/tripack.so: undefined symbol: ó

If I first gunzip the package, I get another undefined symbol, but the net 
effect is the unchanged: a failure to load a library. Otherwise the message is 
the same as for `ts' above.

Downgrading to the old binaries of the package does not help, since they fail 
for other reasons, in this case because they can't find e_wsfe. This, I think, 
is caused by libf2g growing independent of libf2c which had this function 
(originally in libI77.a).

cheers, jari oksanen
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