Trying to install the rJava package on R, on my 14.10 ubuntu, using this code
if (!require(rJava)) install.packages('rJava')
got few errors related to java including jni problems, after reinstalling the jdk, and tried to run the same code again, got that error
Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rJava', details:
call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
error: unable to load shared object '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rJava/libs/rJava.so':
libjvm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rJava’
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘rJava’ had non-zero exit status
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpfFjrp0/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, :
there is no package called ‘rJava’
looked for solutions, to find just about everyone suggesting (for x64) to execute those commands
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/lib/amd64:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/lib/amd64/server
sudo R CMD javareconf
but that didn't work, is there anything else I can do? I will provide any needed details
I was getting the same error when I was trying to load rJava in RStudio.
The following solution worked for me
1) sudo rstudio-server stop
2) export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/amd64:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/amd64/default
3) sudo rstudio-server start
After performing the above steps, I was able to run the following successfuly in RStudio
> library("DBI")
> library("rJava")
> library("RJDBC")
in case none of the above works, try this and thank me later (generic answer) :)
R CMD javareconf -e
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$JAVA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH
If someone is coming here now, Please try the approach below:
Steps:
Find your R location. It will be stored in rsession-ld-library-path
in rserver.conf
file. Or just by doing which R
. The location usually is /usr/lib64/R/lib
or /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.3/lib64/R/lib
Find the libjvm.so
file which is usually in the usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/server
path depending on which jre you're using. Check in $JAVA_HOME environment.
Create a symlink using ln -s
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.3/lib64/R/lib/libjvm.so
Restart R server
Well, as @user3673 has pointed out this, the solution for me was change the following line in /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths
:
: ${R_JAVA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/lib/amd64/server}
by this one:
: ${R_JAVA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/amd64/server}