Hi Dirk, Sorry, I'm not trying to drag out the installation process here, but just trying to get it to work right in Linux.
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > What is wrong with > > $ sudo apt-get install r-cran-rgl > I tried this suggestion, and here was the terminal output: r-cran-rgl is already the newest version. r-cran-rgl set to manually installed. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. So, just to double-check, I went into R as sudo, entered update.packages(), and got this: rgl : Version 0.76 installed in /usr/lib/R/site-library Version 0.82 available at http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN ...and later this... * Installing *source* package 'rgl' ... checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99 checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E checking for gcc... (cached) gcc -std=gnu99 checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking for libpng-config... no checking libpng... 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/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 png.h usability... no checking png.h presence... no checking for png.h... no checking for png_read_update_info in -lpng... no configure: libpng header and lib found configure: using libpng dynamic linkage checking for X... no configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted. ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl' ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/site-library/rgl' ** Restoring previous '/usr/lib/R/site-library/rgl' The downloaded packages are in /tmp/RtmpIW4d37/downloaded_packages Warning message: In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/installing-R-on-Ubuntu-tp10025949p21902802.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
