[R] Cairo Package Installation

[Douglas M. Hultstrand]

I am trying to install the Cairo package on a linux machine, the Cairo 
package did not install correctly (could not find cairo.h), I am new to 
R and linux any help on the installation would be great.  Below are 
output from trying to install the Cairo package, thought this might help.

 > install.packages("Cairo")
Warning in install.packages("Cairo") :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using 
'/home/tyep/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.8'
trying URL 
'http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/src/contrib/Cairo_1.4-4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 75200 bytes (73 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 73 Kb

* Installing *source* package 'Cairo' ...
checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
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 -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo... no
configure: CAIRO_LIBS is unset, attempting to guess it.
configure: CAIRO_CFLAGS=
checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no
checking cairo.h usability... no
checking cairo.h presence... no
checking for cairo.h... no
configure: error: Cannot find cairo.h! Please install cairo 
(http://www.cairographics.org/) and/or set CAIRO_CFLAGS/LIBS
 correspondingly.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'Cairo'
** Removing '/home/tyep/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.8/Cairo'

The downloaded packages are in
        /tmp/RtmpILmmXw/downloaded_packages
Warning message:
In install.packages("Cairo") :
  installation of package 'Cairo' had non-zero exit status
 >

Thanks,
Doug

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Douglas M. Hultstrand, MS
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