On 05/25/08 12:12, 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
Is there a reason why you want to install from source? sudo aptitude install r-base should work, AFAIK, or, if you prefer the GUI, look for R in synaptic. You may have to add an extra repository first; I had to: http://promberger.info/linux/2007/09/04/installing-and-updating-r-with-aptitude/ I'm currently using 7.10 so not 100 percent sure if this works in 8.04. m. -- Marianne Promberger Graduate student in Psychology http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~mpromber ______________________________________________ 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.
