I'm trying to install rJava
on a computer with Win 7 64 bit. When I run
install.packages("rJava")
everything seems to be fine:
Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Users/djq/Documents/R/win-library/2.13’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://software.rc.fas.harvard.edu/mirrors/R/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/rJava_0.9-1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 654936 bytes (639 Kb)
opened URL
downloaded 639 Kb
package 'rJava' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded packages are in
C:\TEMP\RtmpW2eAUw\downloaded_packages
but when I tried to load the library library(rJava)
I get the following error:
Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rJava', details:
call: inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...)
error: unable to load shared object 'C:/Users/me/Documents/R/win-library/2.13/rJava/libs/x64/rJava.dll':
LoadLibrary failure: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'rJava'
I have installed the Java JRE (trying both 32 and 64 bit versions) and the JDK (using both 32 and 64 bit). My R version is R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
and I'm using RStudio.
If I try using 32 bit R, I can load rJava
fine. Is the problem just that rJava
does not run in R 64 bit? How can I tell if a package is just for 32 instead of 64?
edit: just posted R.version()
:
> R.Version()
$platform
[1] "x86_64-pc-mingw32"
$arch
[1] "x86_64"
$os
[1] "mingw32"
$system
[1] "x86_64, mingw32"
$status
[1] ""
$major
[1] "2"
$minor
[1] "13.1"
$year
[1] "2011"
$month
[1] "07"
$day
[1] "08"
$`svn rev`
[1] "56322"
$language
[1] "R"
$version.string
[1] "R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)"
The latest CRAN version of rJava will find the jvm.dll
automatically, without manually setting the PATH
or JAVA_HOME
. However note that:
C:\Program files\Java\
and the latter in C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\
so they do not conflict.As of Java version 9, support for x86 (win32) has been discontinued. Hence the latest working multi-arch setup is to install both jdk-8u172-windows-i586.exe and jdk-8u172-windows-x64.exe and then the binary package from CRAN:
install.packages("rJava")
The binary package from CRAN should pick up on the jvm by itself. Experts only: to build rJava from source, you need the --merge-multiarch
flag:
install.packages('rJava', type = 'source', INSTALL_opts='--merge-multiarch')
(Note: many of folks in other answers/comments have said to remove JAVA_HOME, so consider that. I have not revisited this issue recently to know if all the steps below are still necessary.)
Here is some quick advice on how to get up and running with R + rJava on Windows 7 64bit. There are several possibilities, but most have fatal flaws. Here is what worked for me:
Add jvm.dll to your PATH
rJava, the R<->Java bridge, will need jvm.dll, but R will have trouble finding that DLL. It resides in a folder like
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\jre\bin\server
or
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\jre\bin\client
Wherever yours is, add that directory to your windows PATH variable. (Windows -> "Path" -> "Edit environment variables to for your account" -> PATH -> edit the value.)
You may already have Java on your PATH. If so you should find the client/server directory in the same Java "home" dir as the one already on your PATH.
To be safe, make sure your architectures match.If you have Java in Program Files
, it is 64-bit, so you ought to run R64. If you have Java in Program Files (x86)
, that's 32-bit, so you use plain 32-bit R.
Re-launch R from the Windows Menu
If R is running, quit.
From the Start Menu , Start R / RGUI, RStudio. This is very important, to make R pick up your PATH changes.
Install rJava 0.9.2.
Earlier versions do not work! Mirrors are not up-to-date, so go to the source at www.rforge.net: http://www.rforge.net/rJava/files/. Note the advice there
“Please use
`install.packages('rJava',,'http://www.rforge.net/')`
to install.”
That is almost correct. This actually works:
install.packages('rJava', .libPaths()[1], 'http://www.rforge.net/')
Watch the punctuation! The mysterious “.libPaths()[1],” just tells R to install the package in the primary library directory. For some reason, leaving the value blank doesn’t work, even though it should default.