[R] installing FastRWeb

[Uwe Ligges]

Please do read the output, it tells you:

Please install cairo (http://www.cairographics.org/) and/or set 
CAIRO_CFLAGS/LIBS correspondingly.

And that is exactly what you need to do, it cannot be solved by 
installing R packages....

Best,
Uwe Ligges


On 29.10.2011 18:24, financial engineer wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I am working on Ubuntu and tried to install FastRWeb, but am getting the following error for installation of cairo.h.
>
>   install.packages("FastRWeb",dep=TRUE)
> Installing package(s) into ‘/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> also installing the dependency ‘Cairo’
>
> trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/Cairo_1.5-0.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 81214 bytes (79 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 79 Kb
>
> trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/FastRWeb_1.0-0.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 71072 bytes (69 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 69 Kb
>
> * installing *source* package ‘Cairo’ ...
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking for string.h... (cached) yes
> checking sys/time.h usability... yes
> checking sys/time.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/time.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo... no
> configure: CAIRO_LIBS is unset, attempting to guess it.
> configure: CAIRO_CFLAGS=
> checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no
> checking cairo.h usability... no
> checking cairo.h presence... no
> checking for cairo.h... no
> configure: error: Cannot find cairo.h! Please install cairo (http://www.cairographics.org/) and/or set CAIRO_CFLAGS/LIBS correspondingly.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘Cairo’
> * removing ‘/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/Cairo’
> ERROR: dependency ‘Cairo’ is not available for package ‘FastRWeb’
> * removing ‘/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/FastRWeb’
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>      ‘/tmp/Rtmpla4fs8/downloaded_packages’
> Warning messages:
> 1: In install.packages("FastRWeb", dep = TRUE) :
>    installation of package 'Cairo' had non-zero exit status
> 2: In install.packages("FastRWeb", dep = TRUE) :
>    installation of package 'FastRWeb' had non-zero exit status
>
> so, I tried to install Cairo, but I get the following error:
>
> install.packages("Cairo")
> Installing package(s) into ‘/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/Cairo_1.5-0.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 81214 bytes (79 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 79 Kb
>
> * installing *source* package ‘Cairo’ ...
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking for string.h... (cached) yes
> checking sys/time.h usability... yes
> checking sys/time.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/time.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo... no
> configure: CAIRO_LIBS is unset, attempting to guess it.
> configure: CAIRO_CFLAGS=
> checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no
> checking cairo.h usability... no
> checking cairo.h presence... no
> checking for cairo.h... no
> configure: error: Cannot find cairo.h! Please install cairo (http://www.cairographics.org/) and/or set CAIRO_CFLAGS/LIBS correspondingly.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘Cairo’
> * removing ‘/home/ba/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/Cairo’
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>      ‘/tmp/Rtmpla4fs8/downloaded_packages’
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("Cairo") :
>    installation of package 'Cairo' had non-zero exit status
>
> Can you pls. let me know how I can fix this.....thx!
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