Hi Carmen,
A couple of things to check. Can you post the output of running the following commands.
First, let's run print_qiime_config.py, but with the -f (full install) flag to see if QIIME is finding the RDP classifier:
print_qiime_config.py -f
And second, let's try just calling RDP classifier outside of QIIME:
jar $RDP_JAR_PATH --help
If you could also run ls on the directory that contains the rdp_classifier-2.2.jar file, that would be helpful. The other RDP classifier files need to be present in that same directory.
For example, my RDP_JAR_PATH is: /Users/gregcaporaso/Applications/rdp_classifier_2.2/rdp_classifier-2.2.jar
If I run ls on the directory containing rdp_classifier-2.2.jar, I see the following files:
$ ls /Users/gregcaporaso/Applications/rdp_classifier_2.2/
COPYRIGHT README docs lib rdp_classifier-2.2.jar sampledata src
If you're not seeing those other files, could you try downloading and unzipping the RDP classifier zip file again?
Thanks!