[R] Can't resolve dependency problems with package "sem"

[Jeff Newmiller]

An old version of R would be fine if that was all you wanted, but no, you want all the latest contributed packages as well. I can't blame you for that, but don't blame R for difficulties with contributed packages that have external dependencies and depend on recent versions of R.

You might find

http://trestletech.com/2012/10/install-rgl-in-ubuntu/

helpful with your RGL package issue. 

I very rarely configure/compile since apt is so powerful. IMHO you should always start with apt on Debian derivatives before falling back to compiling. 
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On May 4, 2016 7:06:24 PM PDT, "C&A Säger" <saegerei at t-online.de> wrote:
>Am 05.05.2016 um 01:41 schrieb Jeff Newmiller:
>> Did you follow the instructions for setting up apt to pull recent
>> versions of R, as described in CRAN? I suspect not, since your
>version
>> is old.
>> -- 
>
>Hello Jeff,
>
>Thank you very much for taking notice.
>
>I was hoping that any old version which used to be the best of breed 3
>years ago would be just fine for absolute beginners.
>I did not even know that CRAN exists until I actually installed the
>software. I use Ubuntu because compiling software is a major annoyance
>to me. Since 2002 I use to compile something every now and then when it
>is the only way to get something installed.
>
>Right now I try to follow the R installation guide carefully but dumb
>because I don't really understand what I'm doing. configure, make, make
>check, everything runs OK so far but sudo make install fails anyway.
>What a horrible waste of time and electricity!
>
>Actually, I'm trying to help my daughter who needs to learn some R
>basics. The installation on a Windows PC is a matter of minutes by
>following a tiny instructional PDF from her tutor. But she does not
>have
>the time nor knowledge to install R successfully on her Ubuntu PC which
>is the same as mine. While she has some real work to do, I'm trying to
>get this darn thing onto our computers. Even if I manage to compile a
>working R program on my computer, this will not be of any help for my
>daughter who does not have the compilers installed and I don't know
>which packages make it happen on my PC. I'd have to build my first
>Debian package which might take another day of reading and testing.
>
>[...]
>
>Meanwhile the installation of R out of debian packages from a CRAN
>server did the job and I managed to ...
>
>>  install.packages("Rcmdr",dependencies=TRUE)
>
>... which finished with ...
>
>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>> * DONE (Rcmdr)
>
>... but also with warnings ...
>
>> 1: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   Installation des Pakets ‘rgl’ hatte Exit-Status ungleich 0
>> 2: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   Installation des Pakets ‘rglwidget’ hatte Exit-Status ungleich 0
>
>.. due to these errors:
>
>> configure: error: missing required header GL/gl.h
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’
>
>> ERROR: dependency ‘rgl’ is not available for package ‘rglwidget’
>
>
>Thank you very much for the pointer to this instructive page:
>
>> http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/
>
>May be we can live without GL support for now.
>
>Greetings,
>Andreas

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