One rJava problem in R

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New version of R has wrong path of libjvm.so

Error pops up: 

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libjvm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution (From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28462302):

  1. Find your R location. It will be stored in rsession-ld-library-path in rserver.conf file. Or just by doing which R. The location usually is /usr/lib64/R/lib or /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.3/lib64/R/lib
  2. Find the libjvm.so file which is usually in the usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/server path depending on which jre you’re using. Check in $JAVA_HOME environment.
  3. Create a symlink using ln -s sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.3/lib64/R/lib/libjvm.so
  4. Restart R server