[R] installing rgl package on linux suse 10.1

[Gavin Simpson]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 15:52 +0100, Steven Gorlé wrote:
> Dear R wizards,
> 
> In windows I get really cool graphs with the rgl package.
> However on linux, it seems that I can't install one of my favourite packages.
> I get a error message on X11, but all X11 packages are installed on my linux 
> desktop.
> Who can help me out here?

Guessing that you don't have the development headers for X. I've never
used SUSE, but on my Fedora system the relevant package is:

xorg-x11-devel

I think suse uses the Xorg flavour of X so there is a chance the package
will be similarly named. If so, install it (or the correct package) and
try again.

At a terminal, typing

rpm -qa | grep x11

might help show you if the basic package is xorg-x11 for which you'd
need the devel package mentioned above, or point you in the direction of
the correct package to install

HTH

G

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Steven Gorlé
> 
> 
> >install.packages()
> 
> * 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/lib/R/library/rgl'
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>         /tmp/RtmpUAg2Xh/downloaded_packages
> Warning message:
> installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages()
> >
> 
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