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

Maybe another simple answer which does not touch your filesystem:

$ install_name_tool -add_rpath /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/server /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/rJava/libs/rJava.so

(Substitute jdk1.8.0_131.jdk with your JDK path.)

Answer 2

Here you can download the legacy Java version 6 for El Capitan: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US After doing so, the rJava package works for me.

Answer 3

On OSX El Capitan 10.11, the user doesn't have permission to write to /usr/lib. So instead, use the following command:

sudo ln -s $(/usr/libexec/java_home)/jre/lib/server/libjvm.dylib /usr/local/lib

Answer 4

Run the following on the command line: sudo R CMD javareconf

Several solutions above have mentioned this, but they also suggest that one remove and subsequently re-install the rJava package. I found those additional steps to be unnecessary.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

Check the location of libjvm.dylib file.

Try this, in my case this worked:

dyn.load('/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-10.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/server/libjvm.dylib')
library(rJava)