Hi, I don't know what FastRWeb does, but it appears to me that you need the developmental files for Cairo installed. I don't use ubuntu, but perhaps installing cairo-dev might help?
HTH, Ranjan On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:24:04 -0500 financial engineer <fin_e...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > hi, > > I am working on Ubuntu and tried to install FastRWeb, but am getting the > following error for installation of cairo.h. > > install.packages("FastRWeb",dep=TRUE) > Installing package(s) into ‘/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12’ > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) > also installing the dependency ‘Cairo’ > > trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/Cairo_1.5-0.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 81214 bytes (79 Kb) > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 79 Kb > > trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/FastRWeb_1.0-0.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 71072 bytes (69 Kb) > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 69 Kb > > * installing *source* package ‘Cairo’ ... > checking for gcc... gcc > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > checking for suffix of executables... > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E > checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep > checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E > checking for ANSI C header files... yes > checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes > checking for sys/types.h... yes > checking for sys/stat.h... yes > checking for stdlib.h... yes > checking for string.h... yes > checking for memory.h... yes > checking for strings.h... yes > checking for inttypes.h... yes > checking for stdint.h... yes > checking for unistd.h... yes > checking for string.h... (cached) yes > checking sys/time.h usability... yes > checking sys/time.h presence... yes > checking for sys/time.h... yes > checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes > checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo... no > configure: CAIRO_LIBS is unset, attempting to guess it. > configure: CAIRO_CFLAGS= > checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no > checking cairo.h usability... no > checking cairo.h presence... no > checking for cairo.h... no > configure: error: Cannot find cairo.h! Please install cairo > (http://www.cairographics.org/) and/or set CAIRO_CFLAGS/LIBS correspondingly. > ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘Cairo’ > * removing ‘/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/Cairo’ > ERROR: dependency ‘Cairo’ is not available for package ‘FastRWeb’ > * removing ‘/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/FastRWeb’ > > The downloaded packages are in > ‘/tmp/Rtmpla4fs8/downloaded_packages’ > Warning messages: > 1: In install.packages("FastRWeb", dep = TRUE) : > installation of package 'Cairo' had non-zero exit status > 2: In install.packages("FastRWeb", dep = TRUE) : > installation of package 'FastRWeb' had non-zero exit status > > so, I tried to install Cairo, but I get the following error: > > install.packages("Cairo") > Installing package(s) into ‘/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12’ > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) > trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/Cairo_1.5-0.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 81214 bytes (79 Kb) > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 79 Kb > > * installing *source* package ‘Cairo’ ... > checking for gcc... gcc > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > checking for suffix of executables... > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E > checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep > checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E > checking for ANSI C header files... yes > checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes > checking for sys/types.h... yes > checking for sys/stat.h... yes > checking for stdlib.h... yes > checking for string.h... yes > checking for memory.h... yes > checking for strings.h... yes > checking for inttypes.h... yes > checking for stdint.h... yes > checking for unistd.h... yes > checking for string.h... (cached) yes > checking sys/time.h usability... yes > checking sys/time.h presence... yes > checking for sys/time.h... yes > checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes > checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo... no > configure: CAIRO_LIBS is unset, attempting to guess it. > configure: CAIRO_CFLAGS= > checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no > checking cairo.h usability... no > checking cairo.h presence... no > checking for cairo.h... no > configure: error: Cannot find cairo.h! Please install cairo > (http://www.cairographics.org/) and/or set CAIRO_CFLAGS/LIBS correspondingly. > ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘Cairo’ > * removing ‘/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/Cairo’ > > The downloaded packages are in > ‘/tmp/Rtmpla4fs8/downloaded_packages’ > Warning message: > In install.packages("Cairo") : > installation of package 'Cairo' had non-zero exit status > > Can you pls. let me know how I can fix this.....thx! > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.