[R] Package Install "Design" fails on Ubuntu 8.04

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Not to fix your fundamental problem, but if you don't mind using the 
next-to-last versions of the packages you can install them quite easily 
as debian/Ubuntu packages.  They are named r-cran-hmisc and 
r-cran-design. You can use sudo apt-get install ... or the adept package 
manager etc.

Frank

Dennis Proppe wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am running a Ubuntu 8.04 System and trying to install the 
> Design-package. Hmisc is already installed, all fortran compilers and a 
> Tex-Package are also on board. I searched the net and the help list for 
> analogue threads, but didn't find any.
> Whenever I run the  install.packages("Design")-Command, the following 
> error message shows up in the terminal window:
> 
> -- 
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Loading required package: Hmisc
> Error in dyn.load(file, ...) :
>   unable to load shared library 
> '/home/dp0377/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/Hmisc/libs/Hmisc.so':
>   /home/dp0377/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/Hmisc/libs/Hmisc.so: 
> undefined symbol: translateCharUTF8
> Error: package 'Hmisc' could not be loaded
> Execution halted
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'Design'
> ** Removing '/home/dp0377/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/Design'
> -- 
> 
> I think the problem lies in: 'Hmisc/libs/Hmisc.so: undefined symbol: 
> translateCharUTF8'.
> Can somebody tell me what's going wrong here?
> 
> Thx in advance,
> Dennis
> 


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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University