[R] Pkg rgl: installation fails because of x11

[Duncan Murdoch]

Matthieu Stigler wrote:
> Hello
>
> Im trying to install package rgl in a freshly installed Ubuntu 8.04
> system. I have a problem (actually is has been reported three times on
> the R-list but the answers were too complicated for me) when
> installing:
>
> 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/local/lib/R/site-library/rgl'
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> 	/tmp/RtmpcnTzdW/downloaded_packages
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("rgl", dep = TRUE) :
>   installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status
>
>
> I see two potential explanations:
> -to use rgl I should install some OpenGl package... is it right? which one then?
>   

No, it's some X11 package you need to install, whichever one contains 
the includes and development libraries.  I'm not an Ubuntu user so I 
can't tell you which one.  BTW, rgl is now on R-forge, so you could post 
questions there.

Duncan Murdoch
> -rgl only needs x11 but does not find it. I see actually that there is
> no x11 in /usr/ but X11R6 does the problem come from that?
>
> PS: Im cross posting on R and rgl list
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
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