the questions of installation stringi

[crystal0721]

I am checking an R package called stringi，while there are some questions as follows when installing： Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘stringi’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...): unable to load shared object '/PUBLIC/software/RNA/R/R-3.4.1/lib64/R/library/stringi/libs/stringi.so': libicui18n.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error: loading failed Execution halted ERROR: loading failed

would some one tell me how to solve these，thank you very much。

[gagolews]

Try reinstalling the stringi package and let me know if this helped.

[wzrzt]

I meet the same error too. After I installed icu4c 60.2 from source downloaded from http://site.icu-project.org/download/60#TOC-ICU4C-Download I want to solve the problem that you mentioned in former issue that ICU bug with Chinese characters.
So I try to upgrade libicu-dev from 5.5 to 60.2 on my ubuntu. On my mac, after brew install icu4c, stringi work fine with Chinese characters.

installing via 'install.libs.R' to /opt/microsoft/ropen/3.4.1/lib64/R/library/stringi
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘stringi’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/opt/microsoft/ropen/3.4.1/lib64/R/library/stringi/libs/stringi.so':
  libicui18n.so.60: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing ‘/opt/microsoft/ropen/3.4.1/lib64/R/library/stringi’
* restoring previous ‘/opt/microsoft/ropen/3.4.1/lib64/R/library/stringi’

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpRR5AYM/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Making 'packages.html' ... done
Warning message:
In install.packages("stringi", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com/",  :
  installation of package ‘stringi’ had non-zero exit status

[wzrzt]

And when installing stringi, It found ICU4C 60.2.

[gagolews]

This is not particularly related to stringi, but your ill-configured dynlib search path... libicui18n.so.60: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory try changing the location of the libicu*.so* files or changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH (among others)

why don't you give Sys.setenv(LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/path/to/blah") a try (for example)

[wzrzt]

Thank you very much. I tried it on another ubuntu and no problem appears. So I reinstalled libicu-dev on my ubuntu with the parameter "--fix-broken" and then the problem is gone.