On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:12:56PM -0600, Nitesh Agrawal wrote: > Hi everyone > I have been trying to build R in ubuntu 8.04 from its source code but am > getting the following error. > > configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not > available > > Please help me and consider me a newbie in linux
Well, some kind folks are doing the work for you. So as mentioned in the R FAQ, why don't you use what the CRAN mirrors provide under bin/linux/ubuntu and just install the binary packages? Start here: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ or use your country mirror as e.g. cran.us.r-project.org, cran.ca.r-project.org, ... Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ 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.