[R] Cannot install 'rgl'

[elw at stderr.org]

Do you have the X11 devel packages installed?  You probably do not.....

--elijah


On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Metaxab wrote:

> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:45:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Metaxab <metaxab at gmail.com>
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R]  Cannot install 'rgl'
> 
>
> Hello I have the following problem:
>
> I am trying to install the 'rgl' package by:
>
> sudo R
> install.packages('rgl',dependencies=TRUE)
>
>
> I get the following message
>
> checking for X... no
> configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'
> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgl'
>
>
>
> How can I resolve this issue
>
> I run Ubuntu 7.10
>
>
> Thank you in advance
>