Re: [R] can't get rJava to install on Linux

2009-07-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 July 2009 at 21:28, Mark Kimpel wrote: | Having difficulties getting rJava to install on my Debian Squeeze box. Did you try the binary package? A simple sudo apt-get install r-cran-rjava should do; if not you can at least use its Build-Depeds via sudo apt-get build-depends r-cra

Re: [R] can't get rJava to install on Linux

2009-07-07 Thread Godmar Back
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote: > Switching to Sun definitely did not help, still no build with rJava, > below is the output of  R CMD javareconf. You didn't switch. The paths /usr/lib/gcj-4.3.-90 etc. - any path containing 'gcj' - indicates you're using GNU's Java. It seems t

Re: [R] can't get rJava to install on Linux

2009-07-07 Thread Mark Kimpel
Switching to Sun definitely did not help, still no build with rJava, below is the output of R CMD javareconf. mkimpel-m90 /home/mkimpel/bin# ./R CMD javareconf *** JAVA_HOME is not a valid path, ignoring Java interpreter : /usr/bin/java Java version : 1.6.0_14 Java home path : /usr/lib/jvm/

Re: [R] can't get rJava to install on Linux

2009-07-07 Thread Godmar Back
This is just a guess: looks like you have GNU's Java version in your path (aka "gcj"). Perhaps rJava relies on Sun's Java version. If so, install Sun's Java first. apt-get install sun-java6-jdk might do it. - Godmar On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote: > Having difficulties getti