[ESS] ESS and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Rodney Sparapani]

Hi Erik:

So, if you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately in a terminal window
and then launch xemacs; is the environment variable inherited or not?

Rodney

Erik Iverson wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> Apologies if this is something simple; I've tried everything I can think 
> of!  I am on RHLE 4, R version 2.3.1, ESS 5.3.0.
> 
> I have downloaded an R package called Cairo (not on CRAN).  The package
> Cairo needs to have the Cairo library (www.cairographics.org) installed
> to function.  Because I'm doing this at work, and do not have root 
> access, I have installed the Cairo graphics library in ~/lib, as is my 
> standard practice (I'm *not* talking about the R package Cairo here, I'm 
> talking about the Cairo graphics library).  I then have LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
> set to ~/lib in my .cshrc file.  I then installed the R Cairo package 
> with R CMD INSTALL.
> 
> Now, from my shell in KDE, I can start R and load the Cairo package.
>  > library(Cairo)
>  >
> This is great!
> 
> However, I try from ESS 5.3.0 under XEmacs, also using R version 2.3.1
>  > library(Cairo)
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
> 	unable to load shared library '/u/iverson/R.tools/lib/Cairo/libs/Cairo.so':
>    libcairo.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Error in library(Cairo) : .First.lib failed for 'Cairo'
> 
> It can't find libcairo.so.2, which is in ~/lib.
> 
> I can't figure out why when starting R from my shell, I can load Cairo, 
> but not when using R under ESS.
> 
> I check the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable from the R session 
> started in my shell:
>  > Sys.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH")
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> "/s/pkg/linux/R/2.2.1/lib/R/lib: ... :/u/iverson/lib"
> I omit some paths here, but note it has ~/lib.
> 
> I now check LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the R session in ESS:
>  > Sys.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH")
>  
>  
>                                                 LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> "/s/pkg/linux/R/2.2.1/lib/R/lib: ..."
> This returned the same string as above, *except* for ~/lib!
> I thought, no problem, I'll just append ~/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH using 
> Sys.putenv() in R under ESS.
> 
> It looked like it appended ~/lib correctly according to Sys.getenv(), 
> but library(Cairo) still wouldn't work, same error as above to my 
> surprise.  Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my .Renviron file didn't change 
> the error message either.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?  I was able to get the Cairo package loaded in an 
> R session started from my Xemacs shell also, so my naive guess is that 
> this isn't an Xemacs issue.
> 
> Thanks for any help or suggestions anyone can offer, I've tried all I 
> can think of!
> Erik Iverson
> 
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