Installation

Please read INSTALL for installation instructions.

Running Netscape with the Plugin

If you don't inhibit the installation step when building the package, Netscape will automatically find the plugin the next time it starts. However, when it loads the shared library, it will need to find the R shared library (typically libR.so). This is in $R_HOME/bin and the value of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable must contain this when starting Netscape.

To find the value of R_HOME, you can invoke the command

  R RHOME

Then, you can set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH as

 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$R_HOME/bin:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

in the Bourne shell (sh or bash) or

 setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $R_HOME/bin:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

in csh or tcsh

Problems

See the run time errors in the FAQ

Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@research.bell-labs.com>

Last modified: Wed Feb 28 18:23:16 EST 2001