[R-sig-Debian] updating rgl on debian stable

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 11 December 2006 at 17:20, Michael Friendly wrote:
| Running: R Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01), debian stable
| 
| I'm testing an application that uses rgl (installed with apt-get install 
| r-cran-rgl)
| but fails, at least partly because that application uses a more current 
| version.
| There is also a mysterious error msg from Xlib:
| 
|  > library(car)
|  > library(rgl)
|  > iris.mod <- lm(cbind(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, Petal.Length, 
| Petal.Width) ~
| + Species, data=iris)
|  > source("heplot.R")
|  > source("heplot3d.R")
|  > source("pairs.mlm.R")
|  > heplot3d(iris.mod)
| Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
| Error in ellipsoid(gmean, E, radius, col = last(col), label = "Error") :
|         could not find function "asEuclidean"
|  >
|  > capabilities()
|     jpeg      png    tcltk      X11 http/ftp  sockets   libxml     fifo
|     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
|   cledit    iconv      NLS
|     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
|  > sessionInfo()
| Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
| i386-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| attached base packages:
| [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
| [7] "base"
| 
| other attached packages:
|       rgl       car
| "0.64-13"   "1.2-0"
| 
| If I run example(rgl) alone, things sort of work (I get the volcano data 
| displayed),
| but I get the same Xlib: message:
| 
|  > example(rgl)
| rgl> example(rgl.surface)
| rgl.sr> data(volcano)
|   ...
| rgl.sr> rgl.clear()
| Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
| 
| rgl.sr> rgl.surface(x, z, y, color = col)
| 
| 
| I obtained the most recent source package for rgl and tried to install it
| directly, but this fails.  Any idea what I can do?  How can I tell what X
| component is being looked for?
| 
| euclid:/tmp# R CMD INSTALL rgl_0.69.tar.gz
| * Installing *source* package 'rgl' ...
| checking for gcc... gcc
| checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
| checking whether the C compiler works... yes
| checking whether we are cross compiling... no
| checking for suffix of executables...
| 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 ANSI C... none needed
| checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
| checking for X... no
| configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
| ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'
| ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgl'
| 
| Is this what I need?
| euclid:/tmp# aptitude search xfree86-dri
| p   xfree86-driver-synaptics        - dummy package to upgrade to X.Org 
| new modu
| euclid:/tmp#

Most likely, you need more. Fortunately, this is easy.  Use apt-get and say

	$ apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl

which should install the missing the pieces (x11 headers and all that). 

Hth, Dirk

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