[R-sig-Debian] "Graphics history" in UNIX

[Scotti Roberto]

Hello.
I understand that, to build from source, you need to have all sources 
(in the right place and with the right names, and so on),
but your sentence,
> To build from source you need to have development files installed.
stimulates a very basic question: "Is it possible to avoid building from 
source using R in Kubuntu?
I shifted over from MS only recently. In Windows I used to easily 
download packages and use them.
Now, every time I downloaded a new piece, I had the impression that 
building from source was necessary.
Am I wrong?
Many thanks Roberto


Il 24/06/2010 01:36, Liviu Andronic ha scritto:
> Hello
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Scotti Roberto
> <roberto.scotti at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Thanks for caring. With this last fix playwith() could be an optimal
>> substitution of the Windows "register" graphics tool.
>> Unfortunately the practical side is quite hard and, up now, unsuccessful.
>> It takes hours to understand that 'pkg-config' is a system library, not an
>> R-package,
>> that installed GTK components are insufficient, you have to guess which one
>> of the 33 to-be-installed libgtk2 libraries are required
>> and then finally compilation an linkage start progressing when you discover
>> that 'cairoDevice()', this time an R component (??), has to be installed by
>> its self but ... here I am stuck, see error below:  two members of DevDesc
>> appear as missing!!
>> Do you have any suggestion on how to proceed?
>>
>>      
> To build from source you need to have development files installed. On
> Debian-based distros, you will mostly look for *-dev packages. For
> example, you will probably need to install r-base-dev. For playwith, I
> expect that you will need at least libgtk2.0-dev. As for cairoDevice
> [1], you will need libcairo2-dev, I think. Then follow the error
> messages for potential missing development files.
>
> Regards
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/cairoDevice/index.html
>