I am unable to install packages from CRAN after upgrading R from 3.1.3 to 3.2.1. The error message is that the shared object internet.so cannot be loaded.
install.packages("randomForest")
Installing package into ‘/gs/project/feb-684-aa/BIF/R/R-3.2.1/library’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Error in url("http://cran.r-project.org/CRAN_mirrors.csv") :
internet routines cannot be loaded
In addition: Warning message:
In url("http://cran.r-project.org/CRAN_mirrors.csv") :
unable to load shared object '/software/areas/ircm/tools/R-3.2.1/lib64/R/modules//internet.so':
/software/areas/ircm/tools/R-3.2.1/lib64/R/modules//internet.so: undefined symbol: curl_multi_wait
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] nvimcom_0.9-8
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.2.1
[blancha@lg-1r17-n04 BIF]$ ls /software/areas/ircm/tools/R-3.2.1/lib64/R/modules//internet.so -l
-rwxrwxr-x 1 blancha feb-684-01 275221 Jul 12 09:47 /software/areas/ircm/tools/R-3.2.1/lib64/R/modules//internet.so
The following post appears to address a similar issue. Error in install.packages: internet routines cannot be loaded using StatET while it works in R console