[R-sig-Debian] rgl install failed...

[Petar Milin]

Thanks, again! But can that be "messy" if I start installing via apt-get 
instead of using something like:
install.packages() or
R CMD INSTALL

I installed via apt-get only r-base and r-base-dev, and everything else 
via R itself.

Best,
PM

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 16 May 2009 at 13:21, Petar Milin wrote:
> | Thanks and sorry!
> | I am using: R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17), on Debian testing with 
> | apt-pinning for R base packages.
> 
> Very well. So why don't you just do
> 
>     sudo apt-get install r-cran-rgl
> 
> and use the pre-built binary.
> 
> If you must rebuild from source, use
> 
>     sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl
> 
> which gets you all required packages to then run install.packages("rgl") from
> R. 
> 
> Hth, Dirk
>