[R] OT: installing the XML package - xmlOutputBufferCreateBuffer problem

[Benilton Carvalho]

Hi,

first of, my apologies for the possibly off-topic message regarding a  
problem when installing the XML package (I meant to post at omegahat- 
help, but  I get 404 at http://www.omegahat.org/mailman/listinfo)

When installing the XML package using:

install.packages("XML")

everything seems to go fine... but then I try to load the package and  
I get:

 > library(XML)
Error in dyn.load(file, ...) :
   unable to load shared library '/microarray/bin/R-devel/library/XML/ 
libs/XML.so':
   /microarray/bin/R-devel/library/XML/libs/XML.so: undefined symbol:  
xmlOutputBufferCreateBuffer
Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'XML'
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'XML'

Suggestions?

thanks a lot,

b

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-10-10 r43139)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso885915;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.iso885915;LC_COLLATE=en_US.iso885915;LC_MONETARY=en_US.iso885915;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso885915;LC_PAPER=en_US.iso885915;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.iso885915;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tcltk_2.7.0 tools_2.7.0

$ xml2-config --version
2.6.23

$ uname -a
Linux compute-0-35.local 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:32:02 EDT  
2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux