[R] configure issue

Erin Hodgess erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 21:29:43 CEST 2009


That was it.

thanks so much

Sincerely,
erin

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Phil Spector<spector at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Erin -
>    Packages like tk8.4 are basically runtime packages.  They
> don't provide the necessary header files that are required to
> compile programs which will use those runtime packages.  I
> suspect you'll need to install tcl8.4-dev and tk8.4-dev in order to build
> those capabilities into R.  I think you'll also need
> libxmu-headers, libxt-dev and libx11-dev for X11.  Basically,
> whenever a compilation fails, it means you're missing the -dev
> package.
>
>                                       - Phil Spector
>                                         Statistical Computing Facility
>                                         Department of Statistics
>                                         UC Berkeley
>                                         spector at stat.berkeley.edu
>
>
> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Erin Hodgess wrote:
>
>> Dear R People:
>>
>> I am installing R from source into Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. (R-2.9.1)
>>
>> When I do the configure, I get the following:
>> R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>>  Source directory:          .
>>  Installation directory:    /usr/local
>>
>>  C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2
>>  Fortran 77 compiler:       gfortran  -g -O2
>>
>>  C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
>>  Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -g -O2
>>  Obj-C compiler:
>>
>>  Interfaces supported:
>>  External libraries:        readline
>>  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
>>  Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling, Java
>>
>>  Recommended packages:      yes
>>
>>
>> My concern is with the Interfaces supported.  I should have Tcltk and png
>> there.
>>
>> How do I get those, please?
>>
>> I installed tclx8.4 and put it into the Path.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Sincerely,
>> Erin
>>
>>
>> --
>> Erin Hodgess
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
>> University of Houston - Downtown
>> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
>>
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>



-- 
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com




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