[R] Problem in installing packages on linux machine...

[tkobayas at indiana.edu]

Hi,

Still got the same error message. I did "su R" when I got the error 
message for the first time. I have never seen this error message..... I 
will be googling for solutions as well...

Thank you.

Quoting Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com>:

> Hi, try install packages whit 'sudo'.
>
> $sudo R
>
> --
> Henrique Dallazuanna
> Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil
> 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O
>
> On 08/09/2007, tkobayas at indiana.edu <tkobayas at indiana.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to install RSQLite package on my Fedora workstation. I
>> tried to install other packages as well, but each time I got the same
>> error messages saying "compilation error" and "non zero exit status".
>> Do I have to specify "lib="? I never specified the library path before
>> when I was using Fedora Core 6.
>>
>>
>> Warning in install.packages("RSQLite") : argument 'lib' is missing:
>> using '/usr/lib/R/library'
>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
>> trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib/RSQLite_0.5-6.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 710241 bytes
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 693Kb
>>
>> gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o RSQLite.so RS-DBI.o
>> RS-SQLite.o sqlite-all.o   -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
>> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so when
>> searching for -lR
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lR
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make: *** [RSQLite.so] Error 1
>> chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/R/library/RSQLite/libs/*': No such file
>> or directory
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RSQLite'
>> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/RSQLite'
>>
>> The downloaded packages are in
>>         /tmp/RtmpHQ5Y7C/downloaded_packages
>> Warning message:
>> installation of package 'RSQLite' had non-zero exit status in:
>> install.packages("RSQLite")
>>
>> I appreciate your help.....
>>
>> Thank you very much
>>
>> Taka
>>
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Takatsugu Kobayashi
PhD Student
Indiana University, Dept. Geography