[R] X11 problem

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 25 August 2011 at 22:24, Linlin Yan (颜林林) wrote:
| Because the official source is not as new as the latest version yet.

That is not true --- you get the most recent R version prebuilt for Ubuntu
(and other Linux distros) via the CRAN repositories.

See the R FAQ about where to get to current Ubuntu etc versions, or read the
README yourself at

   http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html

which also explains clearly how to import the key so suppress the (harmless) warning
which Carol had posted earlier.


| On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 15:59 +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
| > 
| > 
| > 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?

Still a very good and un-answered question.   This whole thread should have
taken place on the dedicated mailing list 'r-sig-debian' which is there for
your questions regarding R use and development on the Debian and Ubuntu platforms.

Dirk

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