[R] can't load rJava in R 2.8.1 on Windows XP

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Most likely Java is not in place, including in the DLL search path.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, drflxms wrote:

> Dear community,
>
> unfortunately I did not manage load the rJava package receiving the following
> error-message:
>
>
>> library("rJava")
> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
> kann shared library 'C:/Programme/R/2.8.1/library/rJava/libs/rJava.dll' nicht
> laden:
> LoadLibrary failure:  Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.

You should get a popup here with more information (from Windows).  The 
problem is not rJava.dll, but one of its dependencies.

> Error : .onLoad in 'loadNamespace' für 'rJava' fehlgeschlagen
> Fehler: Laden von Paket/Namensraum für 'rJava' fehlgeschlagen
>
>
> Translation:
> can't load library ... rJava.dll
> LoadLibrary failure: the module was not found
>
> Reinstalling the package did not help, installing the latest developement
> version didn't help as well.
>
> The shared library rJava.dll is in place (exactly where R is looking for it)!
>
> Are there any ideas, what's wrong.
> I'd appreciate any kind of help very much, as I need rJava urgently to use RWeka and iPlots.
>
> Best regards,
> Felix
>
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