[R] X11 problem

[Kevin E. Thorpe]

On 08/25/2011 08:49 AM, carol white wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I used the following commands:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install r-base
>

Is that how you installed R-2-10 or how you tried to install 2.13.1?

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin E. Thorpe<kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca>
> To: carol white<wht_crl at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch"<r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] X11 problem
>
> On 08/25/2011 08:27 AM, carol white wrote:
>> Hello,
>> TO update R under Ubuntu on my macchine, I downloaded R-2.13.1. When running ./configure, I got the following error message:
>>
>> checking for X... no
>> configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available
>>
>>
>>
>> But I could use X11() function in R-2-10. So where does the problem come from?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Carol
>>
>
> It looks like you're compiling from source and your system does not have
> the header files required installed.  Did you compile your previous
> version or use a pre-built (binary) package?  A binary package would not
> require the headers.
>
> I don't use Ubuntu, so I don't know what the name of packages you need
> for the headers.  Typically the packages have the devel versions
> separate, you you need those.
>


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Kevin E. Thorpe
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University of Toronto
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