Hey Ista,

I am just learning a bit of installation. Trying my hands on various things
I see on the web. Some proved helpful whereas I am not sure of others.
I didn't compile R from source. Just downloaded R-2.10.0 and tried to
install. The error message I referred to was there when I did $./configure.
And somebody suggested I should do $./configure --with-x=no to avoid the
error. Other things I installed were in  a bid to solve the problem of x11()
not being available (following what others who said they have encountered
the same problem suggested). But as I said , none helped.

I decided to downloaded another version R-2.11.1 and installed as well. It
was indicated that the version supports X11.
This has solved my problem at least for now.
Thanks for your concern
Ogbos

On 7 October 2010 15:51, Ista Zahn <izahn@psych.rochester.edu> wrote:

> HI,
> It's not clear to me exactly what you did.
>
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:49 AM, ogbos okike <ogbos.okike@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > I have just installed a new version of R (Version R-2.11.0) and did
> install
> > other packages such as raster with ease. However, I could not start the
> > plotting device x11(). I remembered that somewhere at the  stage of
> > installation, an error occurred : 'configure: error: --with-x=yes
> (default)
> > and X11 headers/libs are not available'
>
> This makes it sound like you compiled R from source yourself,
>
> >  I tried avoiding this error by using ./configure --with-x=no (i.e.
> changing
> > the yes to know). Well, the error disappeared but after the installation,
> I
> > could not start x11().
>
> without X11 support.
>
> >
> > I have tried to install alien and attempted to use it to install
> java1.4.rpm
>
> Why? Most linux distributions (you never say which one you are using.
> We need this information in order to help you.) have a standard way to
> install java...
>
> > I have also installed r-base-dev , build-dep r-base and libX11-dev
> > But the problem remains.
> >
>
> This sounds like you installed R using your package manager. So which is
> it?
>
> -Ista
>
> > I will glad if somebody can bail me out.
> > Best
> > Ogbos
> >
> > **
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