[R-sig-Debian] Failure to compile tiff package

[Andrew Roberts]

Many thanks Michael,

libtiff4-dev installed via Synaptic and compilation completed 
successfully. Without bit of help I could have wasted weeks on this!

Andrew

On 24/11/12 19:10, Michael Rutter wrote:
>
>
> On 11/24/2012 02:00 PM, Andrew Roberts wrote:
>> I would be grateful for a bit of help.
>>
>> I am on a 32bit build of Ubuntu LTS 12.04 running R version 2.15.2
>> (2012-10-26) -- "Trick or Treat" Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>>
>> from within RStudio and from within a terminal (sudo R |
>> install.packages("tiff") ) I have the following compile error:
>>
>>   > install.packages("tiff")
>> Installing package(s) into 
>> '/home/andrew/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15'
>> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
>> trying URL 'http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/src/contrib/tiff_0.1-3.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 28014 bytes (27 Kb)
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 27 Kb
>>
>> * installing *source* package 'tiff' ...
>> ** package 'tiff' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> ** libs
>> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG      -fpic  -O3 -pipe
>> -g  -c common.c -o common.o
>> In file included from common.c:1:0:
>> common.h:5:18: fatal error: tiff.h: No such file or directory
>> compilation terminated.
>> make: *** [common.o] Error 1
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'tiff'
>> * removing '/home/andrew/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/tiff'
>> Warning in install.packages :
>>     installation of package 'tiff' had non-zero exit status
>>
>> Sure enough when you download the source files manually and hunt inside
>> there is no tiff.h
>>
>> I suspect the problem is me not tiff!
>>
>> Andrew Roberts
>
> Andrew:
>
> Ubuntu Packages (http://packages.ubuntu.com/) is a great resource.  
> Half way down the page you can search the contents of packages for the 
> file that is missing.  The package you are missing is "libtiff4-dev". 
> Install that via apt or synaptic and then try to install the package 
> in R again.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Michael
>