ROracle not working in R studio

Question

I\'m trying to install ROracle package on a unix box. The package gets installed properly. But library(ROracle) does not work fine with the error

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Answer 1

Seems that the problem is caused by the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable not being set in a way that is system-wide. Unlike other environment variables, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH needs special treatment (see the Ubuntu Help page and search for ld.so.conf.d)

I was able to solve this by setting the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH as per comment 15:

echo "/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib" | sudo tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle.conf

Change the echo statement to where your Oracle Instant Client libraries are stored. (Mine could be found by running echo $OCI_LIB.

Then update the cache:

sudo ldconfig -v

Then open RStudio, execute library("ROracle") and it should work.