R installation for RHive and/or RStudio("--enable-R-shlib")

Question

I suspect I am having a problem with my R installation, something that has to do with "--enable-R-shlib".

Can someone explain if this is something that I can fix using apt-get?

More specifically:

I am having trouble getting installing the RHive package. I Installed R from scratch, following the instructions in (for example): http://cran.ru.ac.za/bin/linux/ubuntu/

basically, just doing:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

Next I opened R and installed rJava:

install.packages("rJava")

which worked fine. Next I tried installing RHive:

install.packages("RHive")

at which point the installation fails with the following message:

* installing *source* package ‘Rserve’ ...
** package ‘Rserve’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking whether to compile the server... yes
configure: error: R was configured without --enable-R-shlib or --enable-R-static-lib

*** Rserve requires R (shared or static) library.                       ***
*** Please install R library or compile R with either --enable-R-shlib  ***
*** or --enable-R-static-lib support                                    ***

What Should I Do?

Also, I installed RStudio and this fails at startup with a related message:

"R shared library (/usr/local/lib64/R/lib/libR.so) not found. If this is a custom build of R, was it built with the --enable-R-shlib option"

All of which leads me to believe it is all related to the same problem. Weird thing is, I followed the same procedure on a different machine, and all seems to work fine...

Answer 1

I had the same problem.
In my case I changed R_HOME like this Sys.setenv(R_HOME="/usr/lib/R")