An old version of R would be fine if that was all you wanted, but no, you want all the latest contributed packages as well. I can't blame you for that, but don't blame R for difficulties with contributed packages that have external dependencies and depend on recent versions of R.
You might find http://trestletech.com/2012/10/install-rgl-in-ubuntu/ helpful with your RGL package issue. I very rarely configure/compile since apt is so powerful. IMHO you should always start with apt on Debian derivatives before falling back to compiling. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On May 4, 2016 7:06:24 PM PDT, "C&A Säger" <saege...@t-online.de> wrote: >Am 05.05.2016 um 01:41 schrieb Jeff Newmiller: >> Did you follow the instructions for setting up apt to pull recent >> versions of R, as described in CRAN? I suspect not, since your >version >> is old. >> -- > >Hello Jeff, > >Thank you very much for taking notice. > >I was hoping that any old version which used to be the best of breed 3 >years ago would be just fine for absolute beginners. >I did not even know that CRAN exists until I actually installed the >software. I use Ubuntu because compiling software is a major annoyance >to me. Since 2002 I use to compile something every now and then when it >is the only way to get something installed. > >Right now I try to follow the R installation guide carefully but dumb >because I don't really understand what I'm doing. configure, make, make >check, everything runs OK so far but sudo make install fails anyway. >What a horrible waste of time and electricity! > >Actually, I'm trying to help my daughter who needs to learn some R >basics. The installation on a Windows PC is a matter of minutes by >following a tiny instructional PDF from her tutor. But she does not >have >the time nor knowledge to install R successfully on her Ubuntu PC which >is the same as mine. While she has some real work to do, I'm trying to >get this darn thing onto our computers. Even if I manage to compile a >working R program on my computer, this will not be of any help for my >daughter who does not have the compilers installed and I don't know >which packages make it happen on my PC. I'd have to build my first >Debian package which might take another day of reading and testing. > >[...] > >Meanwhile the installation of R out of debian packages from a CRAN >server did the job and I managed to ... > >> install.packages("Rcmdr",dependencies=TRUE) > >... which finished with ... > >> ** testing if installed package can be loaded >> * DONE (Rcmdr) > >... but also with warnings ... > >> 1: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) : >> Installation des Pakets ‘rgl’ hatte Exit-Status ungleich 0 >> 2: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) : >> Installation des Pakets ‘rglwidget’ hatte Exit-Status ungleich 0 > >.. due to these errors: > >> configure: error: missing required header GL/gl.h >> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’ > >> ERROR: dependency ‘rgl’ is not available for package ‘rglwidget’ > > >Thank you very much for the pointer to this instructive page: > >> http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/ > >May be we can live without GL support for now. > >Greetings, >Andreas [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
