[R] installing "rgl" package

[Santosh]

Hi Rxperts,

I tried with r-cran-rgl (based on the default installation of Ubuntu) with
reinstalled rgl package from R-forge.. I get the missing GL/gl.h header.
Didn't reinstall Mesa libraries per recommendations of Duncan.

* installing *source* package ‘rgl’ ...** package ‘rgl’ successfully
unpacked and MD5 sums checkedchecking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
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 -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc -std=gnu99
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking for libpng-config... yes
configure: using libpng-config
configure: using libpng dynamic linkage
checking for X... libraries , headers
checking GL/gl.h usability... no
checking GL/gl.h presence... no
checking for GL/gl.h... no
checking GL/glu.h usability... no
checking GL/glu.h presence... no
checking for GL/glu.h... noconfigure: error: missing required header
GL/gl.hERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’
* removing ‘/data/R/lib/rgl’Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘rgl’ had non-zero exit status


On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Santosh <santosh2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Duncan,
> Thanks for the suggestions. How do I uninstall mesa related installations?
> Do I need to uninstall all of "mesa" or only the specific ones?
>
> Santosh
>
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 24/11/2017 5:45 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 24 November 2017 at 11:30, Santosh wrote:
>>> | Hi All, Duncan, Rolf, Ista, DIrk,
>>> |
>>> | Thanks for the suggestions and I tried all of them (as suggested by
>>> Duncan,
>>> | Rolf, Ista and Dirk)... I still get similar error as before while
>>> | installing 'rgl' package.. I also tried to manually configure "rgl"
>>> and got
>>> | an error message (please see below for the verbatim output).  Would
>>> highly
>>> | any further ideas/suggestions!
>>> |
>>> | *In my system, "GL" library is present under "/usr/include/GL"*
>>> |
>>> | Here are the libraries available (as suggested by Rolf)
>>> |
>>> | After installing some of them, I continue to get the same error
>>> message,
>>> | please below the output messages in config.log after I ran
>>> "./configure")
>>> |
>>> |
>>> | "ii  r-cran-rgl                            0.93.996-1
>>> |         amd64        GNU R package for three-dimensional visualisation
>>> | using OpenGL"
>>>
>>> That means you _have_ the rgl package installed, and can stop everything
>>> you
>>> are doing.
>>>
>>> You do _not_ need to install it from source via R. You have it from
>>> Ubuntu.
>>>
>>>
>> Actually the version on CRAN is pretty old, so I'd recommend people do
>> install it from source, getting the source from R-forge.  Since that is a
>> development site the quality varies over time, but right at this minute I
>> would say it is better than the CRAN version.
>>
>> Re Santosh's error messages:  it looks as though the Mesa installation is
>> messed up.  I'd recommend uninstalling it, making sure there's no remnant
>> of Mesa anywhere, then reinstalling it.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>
>

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