Thanks for the quick reply. I was following your hint with "rJava", but I'm still a little lost.
I maybe should have added that the console terminating happens when launching it as "Rterm", it works fine when running it as "RJ". However, I would like to use "Rterm". Here is what I did so far: First of, I'm still confused about Ubuntu's "sudo" way of doing things. Not knowing how to authorize me as "root" when installing packages from a R-script, I can't write on "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" or "/usr/lib/R/site-library". So I turned to Synaptics, found and installed the CRAN package "rJava" that enables me to run the R console with Launch Type "RJ" within Eclipse. "rJava" went into "/usr/lib". Then, launching R as "RJ" and trying to execute an "install.packages()", Ubuntu prompted me for the specification of a valid library directory and offered to create "/home/<ME>/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.10". So ".libPaths()" would give me: R> .libPaths() [1] "/home/<ME>/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.10" "/usr/lib/R/site-library" [3] "/usr/lib/R/library" R> I then tried to "re-install" the package "rJava" by "install.packages()" which got me the following output: +++++ install.packages("rJava", repos=repos.cran, lib="/home/<ME>/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.10") trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/rJava_0.8-2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 471971 bytes (460 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 460 Kb * installing *source* package ‘rJava’ ... checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99 checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes configure: checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 supports static inline... yes checking whether setjmp.h is POSIX.1 compatible... yes checking whether sigsetjmp is declared... yes checking whether siglongjmp is declared... yes checking Java support in R... present: interpreter : '/usr/bin/java' archiver : '/usr/bin/jar' compiler : '/usr/bin/javac' header prep.: '/usr/bin/javah' cpp flags : '' java libs : '-L/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/server -L/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386 -L/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/../lib/i386 -L -L/usr/java/packages/lib/i386 -L/usr/lib/jni -L/lib -L/usr/lib -ljvm' configure: error: One or more Java configuration variables are not set. Make sure R is configured with full Java support (including JDK). Run R CMD javareconf as root to add Java support to R. If you don't have root privileges, run R CMD javareconf -e to set all Java-related variables and then install rJava. ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rJava’ * removing ‘/home/<ME>/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.10/rJava’ The downloaded packages are in ‘/tmp/RtmpbGKuzS/downloaded_packages’ Warning message: In install.packages("rJava", repos = repos.cran, lib = "/home/<ME>/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.10") : installation of package 'rJava' had non-zero exit status +++++ So I ran "sudo R CMD javareconf", but still get the same error. Any hints from here on? Thanks a lot! Janko -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:e...@debian.org] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 19:40 An: Janko Thyson Cc: r-help@r-project.org; tobias.verb...@openanalytics.eu Betreff: Re: [R] Ubunut + Eclipse + StatET: Console terminates upon error On 11 March 2010 at 19:19, Janko Thyson wrote: | I'm trying to set up Eclispe (3.5.1) with the StatET-Plugin (0.8.1) under | Ubuntu (Karmic) and found it strange that my console terminates every time | something in a script produces an arbitrary error (e.g. just calling a | missing variable, trying to perform an illegal operation etc.). Can anyone | tell me why this happens or even better how to fix this? It so happens that I help a colleague recently to triage this. The problem there was that a recent rJava was needed + and installed -- and on Ubuntu and Debian this goes into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ and StatET -- as shipped -- does not look there. I don't use Eclipse so I don't recall where to set this, but in essence you need to make sure that StatET looks where R puts things. And that tends to be R> .libPaths() [1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/site-library" [3] "/usr/lib/R/library" R> CCing Tobias just in case. Dirk -- Registration is open for the 2nd International conference R / Finance 2010 See http://www.RinFinance.com for details, and see you in Chicago in April! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.