Jupyter R kernel crashes

Question

I have just installed the R essentials from Anaconda (having R already installed on my computer) in order to use R in Jupyter.

Now, when I open a new R notebook in Jupyter, after few seconds (without even typing anything) the kernel crashes and needs to be restarted.

The error I get on the terminal is

[I 12:30:36.297 NotebookApp] Kernel started: dd5dd612-2c8f-4235-9619-1cf5a46b3e89

IRkernel::main() Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared object '/home/alberto/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/stringi/libs/stringi.so': /home/alberto/anaconda3/lib/R/library/rzmq/libs/../../../../libstdc++.so.6: version CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by /home/alberto/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/stringi/libs/stringi.so) Calls: :: ... tryCatch -> tryCatchList -> tryCatchOne -> <Anonymous> Execution halted [I 12:30:39.299 NotebookApp] KernelRestarter: restarting kernel (1/5) IRkernel::main() Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared object '/home/alberto/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/stringi/libs/stringi.so': /home/alberto/anaconda3/lib/R/library/rzmq/libs/../../../../libstdc++.so.6: versionCXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by /home/alberto/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/stringi/libs/stringi.so) Calls: :: ... tryCatch -> tryCatchList -> tryCatchOne -> Execution halted [I 12:30:42.309 NotebookApp] KernelRestarter: restarting kernel (2/5) IRkernel::main() Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared object '/home/alberto/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/stringi/libs/stringi.so': /home/alberto/anaconda3/lib/R/library/rzmq/libs/../../../../libstdc++.so.6: version CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by /home/alberto/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/stringi/libs/stringi.so) Calls: :: ... tryCatch -> tryCatchList -> tryCatchOne -> <Anonymous> Execution halted [I 12:30:45.315 NotebookApp] KernelRestarter: restarting kernel (3/5) IRkernel::main() Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared object '/home/alberto/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/stringi/libs/stringi.so': /home/alberto/anaconda3/lib/R/library/rzmq/libs/../../../../libstdc++.so.6: versionCXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by /home/alberto/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/stringi/libs/stringi.so) Calls: :: ... tryCatch -> tryCatchList -> tryCatchOne -> Execution halted [W 12:30:46.485 NotebookApp] Timeout waiting for kernel_info reply from dd5dd612-2c8f-4235-9619-1cf5a46b3e89 [I 12:30:48.322 NotebookApp] KernelRestarter: restarting kernel (4/5) WARNING:root:kernel dd5dd612-2c8f-4235-9619-1cf5a46b3e89 restarted IRkernel::main() Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared object '/home/alberto/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/stringi/libs/stringi.so': /home/alberto/anaconda3/lib/R/library/rzmq/libs/../../../../libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by /home/alberto/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/stringi/libs/stringi.so) Calls: :: ... tryCatch -> tryCatchList -> tryCatchOne -> Execution halted [W 12:30:51.329 NotebookApp] KernelRestarter: restart failed [W 12:30:51.329 NotebookApp] Kernel dd5dd612-2c8f-4235-9619-1cf5a46b3e89 died, removing from map. ERROR:root:kernel dd5dd612-2c8f-4235-9619-1cf5a46b3e89 restarted failed! [W 12:30:51.361 NotebookApp] Kernel deleted before session

I guess it might be a problem with shared libraries but I can't figure out how to solve it...

Answer 1

(TEMP FIX ONLY)

See this discussion: https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/forum/#!topic/conda/nqPfPGYP--g

I was able to get my kernel running using the suggested temporary fix:

$ conda remove gcc libgcc