From alienalias at gmail.com  Thu Jul 10 10:24:46 2008
From: alienalias at gmail.com (Yulia Arzhaeva)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:24:46 +1000
Subject: [Rd] package has a loading problem
Message-ID: <976fc29a0807100124k2656e95axc76984467af87722@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I have difficulties in finding why I cannot load a custom R package in
Linux (Suse 10). When I run R CMD check for a package source folder I
get the following message:
".....
Error in dyn.load(file, ...) :
  unable to load shared library
'/home/yarz/projects/Riman/Riman.Rcheck/Riman/libs/Rimanlib.so':
  /home/yarz/projects/Riman/Riman.Rcheck/Riman/libs/Rimanlib.so:
undefined symbol: immagnify
Error in library(Riman) : .First.lib failed for 'Riman'
Execution halted

It looks like this package has a loading problem: see the messages for
details.  "

The same message I get when I call library(Riman) inside R after
installation of the package.
The installation via R CMD INSTALL caused no error messages. However,
Riman.so had been built before R CMD INSTALL was called, and put into
the source subfolder Riman/inst/libs. It was built via a usual gcc
call and linked with all the necessary libraries (so it is weird that
references seemed to be undefined).

The strange thing is that when I borrow Riman.so built by some other
person in my group and replace my copy with it, loading problem
disappears!  We both use the same server with Linux Suse 10, the same
R installation, the same version of gcc and the same Makefiles for
building Riman.so . We went through variables I might have omitted to
set correctly, but they seemed OK.

If you could give me any hint on what might be a problem, where else
to look, I would be very happy. Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
Yulia



[Rd] package has a loading problem
Yulia Arzhaeva