[R] Cannot Install rimage in R-1.7.1 (RH 9.0)

[Rick Bilonick]

The rimage install can't find the ffw header. Any idea why?

Rick B.

 > install.packages("rimage")
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
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downloaded 127Kb
 
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/rimage_0.5-1.tar.gz'
Content type `application/x-tar' length 80044 bytes
opened URL
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downloaded 78Kb
 
* Installing *source* package 'rimage' ...
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output... 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 g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... 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 fftw.h usability... no
checking fftw.h presence... no
checking for fftw.h... no
configure: error: Sorry, can't find fftw header
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rimage'
 
Delete downloaded files (y/N)?
The packages are in /tmp/Rtmp14443/Rinstdir327b23c6
Warning message:
Installation of package rimage had non-zero exit status in: 
install.packages("rimage")