Unable to install stringi and stringr R libraries on PAWS
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	PAC2
	Mar 6 2023, 10:21 PM

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Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

Open an Jupyter Notebook with R kernel on https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/
Install the stringi library : install.packages("stringi")
Load the stringi library : library("stringi")

What happens?:

You've got the message " unable to load shared object '/srv/r/stringi/libs/stringi.so':"

On Ubuntu, stringi requires the library libicu-dev to be installed (https://stringi.gagolewski.com/install.html).

Is it possible to install libicu-dev on PAWS ?

FYI stringi is a very important string manipulation library in R. stringr depends on stringi.

See https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/stringi.ipynb for an example.

What should have happened instead?:

Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

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Mentioned In: rPAWS7a88b67d9900: Install libicu-dev for stringi (#266)

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PAC2 renamed this task from Add libicu-dev library to PAWS to Unable to install stringi and stringr R libraries on PAWS.Mar 6 2023, 10:21 PM

PAC2 created this task.

vivian-rook opened https://github.com/toolforge/paws/pull/266

We can test out the PR locally when it is finished building. Though we probably won't deploy until next week when PAWS is back to one cluster.

Looking a little closer it would appear that libicu-dev is already installed

@PAWS:~$ dpkg -l | grep icu
ii  icu-devtools                              70.1-2                                  amd64        Development utilities for International Components for Unicode
ii  libicu-dev:amd64                          70.1-2                                  amd64        Development files for International Components for Unicode
ii  libicu70:amd64                            70.1-2                                  amd64        International Components for Unicode

I'm wondering if this has to do with libicu70, when perhaps it is libicu66 that is expected?

I see

libicui18n.so.66: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

In the output when I run the steps described by @PAC2

Thanks for your feedback.

I still have the same issue : https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/stringi.ipynb

So maybe we need libicu66

vivian-rook closed https://github.com/toolforge/paws/pull/266

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2023-04-12T10:51:49Z] <Rook> remove focal from R 7a88b67d990035eb912c5399f5ea3deeb4b75f37 T331363

I think this is working now. R was pulling from some focal rather than jammy repos.

rook closed this task as Resolved.Apr 12 2023, 10:52 AM

Restricted Repository Identity mentioned this in rPAWS7a88b67d9900: Install libicu-dev for stringi (#266).Apr 12 2023, 10:55 AM

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