rJava fails to install (MacOS, Red Hat)

Question

I am experiencing the same rJava problem that many other people seem to of had at one point or another. The error occurs when R CMD INSTALL tests whether JNI progra

Answer 1

I am using Redhat Linux 7.1

I was getting the same problem as above and I performed the following steps

1) Edit /usr/lib64/R/etc/Renviron and add "CPPFLAGS=${CPPFLAGS-'-ldl'}" to the end of the file

2) Then find the java home and set it like below ( set java home till /jre)

$export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.1-ibm-1.7.1.3.10-1jpp.1.el7_1.x86_64/jre
$export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
$R CMD javareconf

3) invoke R from commandline

$R
> install.packages("rJava")
> install.packages("RJDBC",dep=TRUE)
> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y