[R] installation problem on Ubuntu

[Paul Tremblay]

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
source ~/.bash_profile

I still get the same error.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:45 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> > On Apr 21, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Paul Tremblay <paulhtremblay at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I was able to install the curl library with no problems. However, when I
> > tried to install ggplot (install.packages("ggplot2")), I got the same
> > message as earlier, that R can't load internet.so.
>
> Is the libcurl directory in your search path?
>
> David.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Tom Wright <tom at maladmin.com> wrote:
> >
> >> apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-dev
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 09:36 -0700, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> >>> I needed to update R so I could install ggplot. I am running Ubuntu
> >> 12.04.
> >>> I cannot upgrade Ubuntu because I am using a work computer.
> >>>
> >>> I tried upgrading the normal way:
> >>>
> >>> sudo apt-get update
> >>> sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
> >>>
> >>> But this only installed an earlier version. Finally I tried installing
> >> from
> >>> source (./configure, Make install). This worked. However, when I try to
> >>> install packages, I get this error:
> >>>
> >>> Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
> >>>  internet routines cannot be loaded
> >>> In addition: Warning message:
> >>> In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
> >>>  unable to load shared object '/usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so':
> >>>  /usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so: undefined symbol:
> >> curl_multi_wait
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>> ls /usr/local/lib/R/modules/
> >>>>> R_X11.so  R_de.so  internet.so  lapack.so
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> P
> >>>
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> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
>
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