[R] error loading Matrix in Mac OSX 10.4

[Constantinos Antoniou]

Dear Prof. Ripley,

Thank you for the suggestion. I will subscribe to that list as well  
(and direct my mac-specific issues there)

Constantinos Antoniou

On 19 Î™Î¿Ï…Î½ 2005, at 6:43 ÎœÎœ, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> I think you need to ask on the R-sig-mac list with many more details.
>
> My understanding is that Matrix.so should import something like
> libintl_dgettext and that the R executable should export it.  Hence my
> suspicion is that your build of R is the problem rather than the
> installation of Matrix.  So the first point to check is if
> libintl_dgettext is being exported by your executable.
>
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Constantinos Antoniou wrote:
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am having trouble loading Matrix (0.96-3) in self-compiled R-2.1.1-
>> beta, and self compiled R.app (got it a couple of days ago via:
>>
>> svn co https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/Mac-GUI Mac-GUI )
>>
>> on Mac OS 10.4.1.
>>
>> The problem I get when I try to load Matrix is the following: (I know
>> I do not need to worry about the warnings, even though it might be
>> nice to know why they occur, if there is something simple):
>>
>>
>> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
>>     unable to load shared library '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
>> Resources/library/Matrix/libs/Matrix.so':
>>   dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/Matrix/
>> libs/Matrix.so, 6): Symbol not found: _libintl_dgettext
>>   Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/
>> Matrix/libs/Matrix.so
>>   Expected in: flat namespace
>> In addition: Warning messages:
>> 1: cannot create HTML package index in: make.packages.html()
>> 2: cannot create HTML package index in: make.packages.html()
>> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Matrix'
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Constantinos Antoniou
>>
>>
>> PS.
>>
>>
>>> str(.Platform)
>>>
>> List of 6
>> $ OS.type   : chr "unix"
>> $ file.sep  : chr "/"
>> $ dynlib.ext: chr ".so"
>> $ GUI       : chr "X11"
>> $ endian    : chr "big"
>> $ pkgType   : chr "mac.binary"
>>
>>> R.version.string
>>>
>> [1] "R version 2.1.1, 2005-06-14"
>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Constantinos Antoniou, Ph.D.
>> Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering
>> National Technical University of Athens
>> 5, Iroon Polytechniou str. GR-15773, Athens, Greece
>>
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>
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Constantinos Antoniou, Ph.D.
Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
5, Iroon Polytechniou str. GR-15773, Athens, Greece