[R] installing rgl package on linux suse 10.1

[Steven Gorlé]

Dear,

Many thanks for your help.
Rgl is up and running!


Kind regards,

Steven Gorlé






Op woensdag 1 november 2006 19:36, schreef Gavin Simpson:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 15:52 +0100, Steven Gorlé wrote:
> > Dear R wizards,
> >
> > In windows I get really cool graphs with the rgl package.
> > However on linux, it seems that I can't install one of my favourite
> > packages. I get a error message on X11, but all X11 packages are
> > installed on my linux desktop.
> > Who can help me out here?
>
> Guessing that you don't have the development headers for X. I've never
> used SUSE, but on my Fedora system the relevant package is:
>
> xorg-x11-devel
>
> I think suse uses the Xorg flavour of X so there is a chance the package
> will be similarly named. If so, install it (or the correct package) and
> try again.
>
> At a terminal, typing
>
> rpm -qa | grep x11
>
> might help show you if the basic package is xorg-x11 for which you'd
> need the devel package mentioned above, or point you in the direction of
> the correct package to install
>
> HTH
>
> G
>
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Steven Gorlé
> >
> > >install.packages()
> >
> > * Installing *source* package 'rgl' ...
> > checking for gcc... gcc
> > 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 accepts -g... yes
> > checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> > checking for X... no
> > configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
> > ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'
> > ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl'
> >
> > The downloaded packages are in
> >         /tmp/RtmpUAg2Xh/downloaded_packages
> > Warning message:
> > installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status in:
> > install.packages()
> >
> >
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