[R] Installing rgl

[Kevin E. Thorpe]

Hello.

I'm having trouble installing rgl.  I have a theory as to the problem.
First, the error message and session info.

> install.packages("rgl")
trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/rgl_0.81.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1636939 bytes (1.6 Mb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 1.6 Mb

* Installing *source* package 'rgl' ...
checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
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 -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc -std=gnu99
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking for libpng-config... yes
configure: using libpng-config
configure: using libpng dynamic linkage
checking for X... libraries , headers
checking GL/gl.h usability... yes
checking GL/gl.h presence... yes
checking for GL/gl.h... yes
checking GL/glu.h usability... yes
checking GL/glu.h presence... yes
checking for GL/glu.h... yes
checking for glEnd in -lGL... no
configure: error: missing required library GL
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/rgl'

The downloaded packages are in
        /tmp/RtmpZAeU9W/downloaded_packages
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning message:
In install.packages("rgl") :
  installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.2 Patched (2008-09-02 r46486)
i686-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.7.2

So, the error appears to be related to libGL (or libGLU?).  I am running
OpenSUSE 10.2.  I have the OpenGL packages installed.  I have the MESA
and MESA-devel packages installed which provide libGL.so.1 and
libGLU.so.1.  I also have the fglrx (proprietary ATI driver package
installed) which also provides libGL.so.1 (but no libGLU.so.1).  I
suspect that an incompatible libGL is being found (both versions appear
to be on the system in different directories).

How do I confirm if this is the case and force a particular lib file
during package installation?

Kevin

-- 
Kevin E. Thorpe
Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
email: kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca  Tel: 416.864.5776  Fax: 416.864.6057