[R] Installation difficulty with "rimage"

[John Kornak]

Thanks to Professor Ripley and Sarah Goslee for their helpful responses 
which have progressed my installation of rimage a little further.
Installing fftw2 instead of fftw3 of course solves the problem and I 
apologize for initially missing that requirement in the rimage 
documentation.

My install has now unfortunately stalled at the next stage and once 
again I would appreciate any advice as to how to solve the problem:

checking jpeglib.h usability... no
checking jpeglib.h presence... no
checking for jpeglib.h... no
configure: error: Sorry, can't find jpeglib header
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rimage'

I believe that I have successfully installed libjpeg from the web site 
http://www.ijg.org as specified in the documentation.

I have also checked for the existence of the jpeglib.h file which is 
sitting in /usr/local/bin/jpeg-6b

I noticed an old posting on this issue, but the solution was to make 
sure that the jpeglib.h existed, which it does.

I am now running FFTW version 2.1.5, fedora core 3 and R version 2.3.1

Thanks again

John

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, John Kornak wrote:
> 
>> Dear R people,
>>
>> I am trying to install rimage using install.packages("rimage") but am 
>> receiving the following errors despite having FFTW installed. I would 
>> appreciate any help to get this fixed.
>>
>> checking fftw.h usability... no
>> checking fftw.h presence... no
>> checking for fftw.h... no
>> configure: error: Sorry, can't find fftw header
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rimage'
>>
>> I am using FFTW version 3.1, fedora core 3 and R version 2.3.1
>>
>> I noticed an old posting on the subject  but the solution was to install 
>> FFTW which I already did but the error still persists.
> 
> You need fftw2, not fftw3 (as the DESCRIPTION file says).
> That posting was spot on.
> 

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