[R] Issues in installing rgl in Mac OS 10.6.8

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please ask about OS X on R-sig-mac .

There is something you have not installed on your OS, but it will 
probably need several rounds to find what (and it will be not just 
Mac-specific but depend on the exact versions of OS X (which you told 
us) and Xcode (which you did not)).

On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, A Ezhil wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to install rgl on my mac notebook from the source file. I tried using: /usr/bin/R64 CMD INSTALL rgl_0.92.798.tar.gz and get the following
> error message:
>
> checking for X... no
> configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’
> * removing
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/rgl’
> * restoring previous
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/rgl’
>
> I do see a directory X11 installed under /usr and Sys.getenv("PATH") inside R gives me: [1] "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin"
>
> Could you please hep me to install rgl package?
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Kind regards,
> Ezhil
>
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