R: rJava package install failing
Turns out my problem was an issue with my JAVA_HOME
environment variable. Yes, shocking I know. My initial setting for PATH
and JAVA_HOME
looked like this:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sunexport PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
And I added /jre
so it now looks like this:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jreexport PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
Everything in Java seemed to work fine without the /jre
but rJava would not. Odd.