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nanounanue
nanounanue

Reputation: 8342

Install R in ubuntu wily

I am having problems with R after updating to ubuntu 15.10:

When I trying to run R, I got the following:

/usr/local/lib/R/bin/exec/R: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

And If I tried to uninstall R (someone suggest that in the web) it doesn't remove the R binary (not even using purge!)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 508

Answers (2)

nanounanue
nanounanue

Reputation: 8342

I just recompiled R from the source (I want to emphasize this: recompiled from the source) and it worked.

  1. Download R from https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.2.2.tar.gz
  2. Uncompress it: tar zxvf R-3.2.2.tar.gz
  3. cd R-3.2.2
  4. ./configure
  5. make
  6. sudo make install

UPDATE

After following some suggestions I remove the R-installed from the source with sudo make uninstall. And then I installed it from synaptic, and now everything worked.

Upvotes: 0

Dirk is no longer here
Dirk is no longer here

Reputation: 368241

I ran into that with a CRAN package but it could possibly be the same for R itself. When you upgrade to Ubuntu 15.10, the ICU libraries goes from 52 to 55.

And all binaries built outside the package management systems may fail as libicu52 is now longer there. So you need to rebuild -- and it will pick up libicu55.

But you should really consider using the (always current) R binaries from the CRAN mirrors. These reflect the Debian binaries I upload, and which Michael rebuilds. Lots of people use them happily, and we have the r-sig-debian list for help if needed.

Upvotes: 3

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