rjags on ubuntu -- nonzero exit status

copied from http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.debian/1143

on ubuntu 10.10 and rjags 3.x, I could still have this problem.

On 05/27/2010 05:23 AM, Scott Brogan wrote:
> I've not been able to install rjags successfully in Ubuntu 10.04 :
>
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rjags', details:
> call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
> error: unable to load shared library
> '/home/scott/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11/rjags/libs/rjags.so':
> libjags.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> ERROR: loading failed
>
> I've tried with different versions of both JAGS& rjags; lastly with R
> 2.11.0, JAGS 2.1.0,& rjags_2.1.0-4. Could anyone help ?
>

Scott,

I also had trouble installing rjags in 10.04. I got the same error you
did, even though I could see the .so files. The fix (I think, I tried
lots of things) was to run 'ldconfig', then launch R and install the
package. Apparently, my jags install did not update the libraries.

Hope this helps,
Michael