Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about R support in gentoo

[Alec Ten Harmsel]

El 19/11/2016 a las 07:47 a. m., Zhu Sha Zang escribió:
>
> Hello everybody...
>
>
> A single doubt here:
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> After an upgrade in package dev-libs/icu (from 57.1 to 58.1-r1) i
> tried a package upgrade inside R and got that:
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> /> update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE,
> repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')
> trying URL 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/knitr_1.15.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1027358 bytes (1003 KB)
> ==================================================
> downloaded 1003 KB
>
> * installing *source* package ‘knitr’ ...
> ** package ‘knitr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> ** R
> ** demo
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
> *unable to load shared object
> '/usr/lib64/R/library/stringi/libs/stringi.so':**
> **  libicui18n.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory*
> /
>

I am not super familiar with R - can you try rebuilding R itself before 
doing the CRAN package installs/upgrades? It looks like the path to ICU 
is hard-coded somehow.

>
> This kind of "bug" can I put inside bugs.gentoo.org or its a cran
> package bug?
>
> It is not the first time and i'm in dout about how to proceed.
>
>

If rebuildling R fixes this problem, you can file a bug so that 
developers somehow trigger an R rebuild whenever ICU is updated.

Alec