[R] X11 problem

[Linlin Yan (颜林林)]

Because the official source is not as new as the latest version yet.

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 15:59 +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:51 PM, carol white <wht_crl at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>         Thanks I ran your command but still get the same error message
>         when I run ./configure
>         
>         configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs
>         are not available
>         
> 
> 
> If you are installing via  apt-get, why do you have to
> run ./configure?
> 
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>         ----- Original Message -----
>         From: Linlin Yan (颜林林) <yanlinlin82 at gmail.com>
>         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 3:41 PM
>         Subject: Re: [R] X11 problem
>         
>         In order to build R-2.13.1 from source with X11, I guess you
>         need to
>         install X11 develop library. Please try this:
>         sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
>         
>         On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 05:49 -0700, carol white wrote:
>         > Thanks for your reply. I used the following commands:
>         > sudo apt-get update
>         > sudo apt-get install r-base
>         >
>         > ----- 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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