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

[Douglas Bates]

Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net> writes:

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

Because you haven't installed the fftw package for your Linux
distribution first?

Sources, .rpm and .deb files are at http://www.fftw.org/

> 
> Rick B.
> 
>  > install.packages("rimage")
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 130159 bytes
> opened URL
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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")