rJava load error in RStudio/R after “upgrading” to OSX Yosemite

Question

I recently \"upgraded\" from OSX Mountain Lion to Yosemite and from R 3.1.3 to 3.2. Immediately after the upgrade, when I opened R or RStudio I got a pop-up message saying t

Answer 1

You should be able to use the CRAN rJava, without needing to recompile rJava or do any additional steps by linking the shared library to the R frameworks library directory.

sudo ln -s $(/usr/libexec/java_home)/jre/lib/server/libjvm.dylib /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Libraries