[ESS] ESS and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Erik Iverson]

Kasper -

Thanks for the suggestions.  I did try logging out of KDE and back in, 
didn't change anything.  I did try Sys.putenv() from my R session in ESS 
also!  I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the previous value (using Sys.getenv()) 
along with "/u/iverson/lib".  It was then set as I wanted, verified by 
Sys.getenv(), but I still got the same error!  That's the confusing part 
to me.  I also tried it with .Renviron, same thing!

Erik


Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> Erik: you might simply have to log out of your KDE session, have you  
> tried that?
> 
> Also, a quick way to solve things like this is by the R command  
> Sys.putenv which allows you to change the environment variables in a  R 
> session, there is also the possibility of .Renvir (although I  dislike 
> that because it is not being used by R CMD scripts)
> 
> Kasper
> 
> On Oct 18, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> 
>> Erik Iverson wrote:
>>
>>> Rodney -
>>>
>>> Ok, that does work!  I'm able to load package Cairo successfully if I
>>> start Xemacs from the shell in KDE.  I also tried a Gnome  session.  It
>>> works from the command line *and* when I start it from Gnome with  "run
>>> application" or whatever similar option there is in Gnome.  It's only
>>> in KDE when I start it from "Run command" or from my shortcut that it
>>> doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Well, I realize at this point it's probably not an ESS issue, and I'm
>>> content with starting Xemacs from my shell.  Still kind of puzzling,
>>> but don't know if there's anything to do about it.  If I ever figure
>>> it out, I'll post here.  Seems at this point to be KDE related?
>>>
>>> Thanks so much,
>>> Erik
>>
>> Hi Erik:
>>
>> Don't know much about KDE, but in GNOME you can specify a script to
>> run at startup that does these kinds of things like
>> setting environment variables, launching xemacs, etc.
>>
>> Rodney
>>
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