[R] R2BayesX (command bayesx) doesn't work

[Achim Zeileis]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On 06/06/2012 16:13, niandra wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have a problem with the library R2BayesX, when i try to use the command
>> bayesx i get this error:
>> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libreadline.5.2.dylib
>>    Referenced from:
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/BayesXsrc/libs/i386/BayesX
>>    Reason: image not found
>
> So your R installation on your unstated OS is incomplete/corrupt.
>
> It looks like this is OS X, so:
>
> - wrong list (use R-sig-mac)
> - you need to tell the correct list a lot more, including the 'at a minimum' 
> information asked for in the R posting guide (see below), and how you 
> installed R.
> - a possible answer is to install 
> http://r.research.att.com/src/readline-5.2.tar.gz : see the OS X 
> documentation.

Thanks, Brian, I wasn't aware of that (because I am not an OS X user). I 
had recently seen this problem on another OS X machine. There, we solved 
it by

install.packages("BayesXsrc", type = "source")

so that the BayesX binary would be linked against the libreadline that was 
available on that machine.

thx,
Z

>> I obtain this message also with the example in the bayesx help:
>> 
>> ## generate some data
>> set.seed(111)
>> n<- 200
>> 
>> ## regressor
>> dat<- data.frame(x = runif(n, -3, 3))
>> 
>> ## response
>> dat$y<- with(dat, 1.5 + sin(x) + rnorm(n, sd = 0.6))
>> 
>> ## estimate models with
>> ## bayesx REML and MCMC
>> b1<- bayesx(y ~ sx(x), method = "REML", data = dat)
>> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libreadline.5.2.dylib
>>    Referenced from:
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/BayesXsrc/libs/i386/BayesX
>>    Reason: image not found
>> Total run time was: 0.69 sec
>> 
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