Rscript execution error: No such file or directory

Question

The binary of Rscript is available but when I try to use it I get:

Rscript helloworld.r

Rscript execution error: No such file or directory

If I just do Rscript, it brings the help/usage for it through.

R CMD BATCH is working fine.

I tried adding shebang lines in the R code at the start but it didn't work.

#!/sys_apps_01/R/R-3.2.0/bin/R

#!/sys_apps_01/R/R-3.2.0/bin/Rscript

What is your operating system and what does `which Rscript` return? — nrussell, Oct 03 '16 at 12:53
OS is RedHat 6 and Rscript returns the usage of Rscript (Usage: /path/to/Rscript [--options] [-e expr [-e expr2 ...] | file] [args]) — Sourabh Potnis, Oct 03 '16 at 12:55

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 20 '17 at 20:50

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As in your case, this was caused by me moving R (in order to try to use it in an AWS lambda function).

I resorted to doing the equivalent call on R itself:

./R --slave --no-restore --file=TheScript.R

answered Jun 20 '17 at 20:50

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This is easiest b/c it doesn't require monkeying with homebrew's symlinks. – irritable_phd_syndrome Dec 11 '18 at 11:06

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 24 '16 at 07:44

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It's likely this was installed to (configured for) another directory and then moved after installation. Afterwards Rscript won't be able to find the (hardcoded?) R binary. I just had the same problem, which could be solved by reinstalling R.

Andreas

answered Oct 24 '16 at 07:44

Andreas

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Yes, R was installed and was moved afterwards. How can I use R and RScript from this custom location? – Sourabh Potnis Oct 24 '16 at 11:11

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 27 '20 at 12:04

I preface this solution issuing a caution to do this at one's own risk. However I encountered the same issue and had the following solution:

Say you've run make && make install which has installed R to /path/to/install/loc. Once you've moved this to path/to/new/loc, R/Rscript will then complain it can't find the right file/directory.

Editing the R and Rscript executables in path/to/new/loc/bin, you can change any reference to /path/to/old/loc to /path/to/new/loc. This has worked for me and haven't encountered any further issues

As has been previously mentioned, it's definitely preferable to install R to the required location either through prefix=... in the configure script, or by using the rhome=... argument following make install

Are you sure this is working I see Rscript being $ file /opt/third/R/4.0.0/bin/Rscript /opt/third/R/4.0.0/bin/Rscript: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs) how do you "change reference" ? — statquant, May 19 '20 at 12:18

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 12 '21 at 22:24

I encountered the same issue. What happened in my case was that, R was first installed at /usr/lib/R with deb packages, then I moved the dir to /opt/R and defined R_HOME to the new dir, hoping R will adapt to it automatically, but turns out there are hardcoded paths of /usr/lib/R in bin/R. Unless I update the paths, simply moving R to another location will break the installation.

Rscript execution error: No such file or directory

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