[R] Installing Package rgl - Compilation Fails

[Rick Bilonick]

I'm running  R 2.4.1  (with the latest versions of all packages) on an
FC6 32-bit system. When I try to install the rgl package, compilation
fails:

> install.packages("rgl")
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/rgl_0.70.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 705556 bytes
opened URL
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downloaded 689Kb

* 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... libraries , headers 
checking for libpng-config... yes
configure: using libpng-config
configure: using libpng dynamic linkage
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
** libs
g++ -I/usr/lib/R/include -I/usr/lib/R/include -I -DHAVE_PNG_H
-I/usr/include/libpng12 -Iext -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -O2 -g
-pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables -c api.cpp -o api.o
In file included from glgui.hpp:9,
                 from gui.hpp:11,
                 from rglview.h:10,
                 from Device.hpp:11,
                 from DeviceManager.hpp:9,
                 from api.cpp:14:
opengl.hpp:24:20: error: GL/glu.h: No such file or directory
Disposable.hpp:13: warning: ‘struct IDisposeListener’ has virtual
functions but non-virtual destructor
types.h:77: warning: ‘class DestroyHandler’ has virtual functions but
non-virtual destructor
gui.hpp:56: warning: ‘class gui::WindowImpl’ has virtual functions but
non-virtual destructor
gui.hpp:90: warning: ‘class gui::GUIFactory’ has virtual functions but
non-virtual destructor
pixmap.h:39: warning: ‘class PixmapFormat’ has virtual functions but
non-virtual destructor
api.cpp: In function ‘void rgl_user2window(int*, int*, double*, double*,
double*, double*, int*)’:
api.cpp:764: error: ‘gluProject’ was not declared in this scope
api.cpp: In function ‘void rgl_window2user(int*, int*, double*, double*,
double*, double*, int*)’:
api.cpp:792: error: ‘gluUnProject’ was not declared in this scope
make: *** [api.o] Error 1
chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/R/library/rgl/libs/*': No such file or
directory
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rgl'
** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl'

The downloaded packages are in
        /tmp/RtmpJY8uNp/downloaded_packages
Warning message:
installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status in:
install.packages("rgl") 

I was able to install this on an 64-bit system running FC4 and R 2.4.1.

Any ideas on why it fails on FC6?

Rick B.