[R] Installing rgl package under Ubuntu

[Ivailo Stoyanov]

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 08:55 -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
[snip]
> rgl needs to know where the X11 headers and libs are, and it appears 
> that the configure script (which was written by autoconfig) isn't 
> finding them.  You probably need to specify them manually, when you run 
> configure:
> 
>    --x-includes=DIR    X include files are in DIR
>    --x-libraries=DIR   X library files are in DIR
> 
> If you built R, you can find where R found these by looking at the 
> config.log:  search for X_CFLAGS and X_LIBS, and you'll see something like
> 
> X_CFLAGS=' -I/usr/X11R6/include'
> X_LIBS=' -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXt -lXmu'
> 
> which should mean that this would install rgl on this system:
> 
> R CMD INSTALL rgl --configure-args="--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include 
> --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib"
> 
> (In fact, the configure script found them in those locations by itself.)
> 
> Duncan Murdoch

Thanks for the response, but meanwhile I figured the solution and have
just posted it to the list!

It seems that the r-base-dev package from the Ubuntu R backport doesn't
provide *all* the packages necessary to build add-on libraries.

Greets,
Ivailo