At 15:41 08/07/2010, Scotti Roberto wrote:
Hello.
I understand that, to build from source, you need to have all
sources (in the right place and with the right names, and so on),
but your sentence,
To build from source you need to have development files installed.
Roberto,
My experience as a very naive Linux user with mostly Windows
experience is that once you have the initial setup right subsequent
installation of packages from source works very smoothly. I was quite
nervous about the initial setup but the instructions on the welcome
pages on CRAN were very helpful. I think when you look back in a few
months time you will, like me, wonder why you were concerned in the
first place.
If despite that you run into problems I have always found the experts
on this list very helpful.
stimulates a very basic question: "Is it possible to avoid building
from source using R in Kubuntu?
I shifted over from MS only recently. In Windows I used to easily
download packages and use them.
Now, every time I downloaded a new piece, I had the impression that
building from source was necessary.
Am I wrong?
Many thanks Roberto
Il 24/06/2010 01:36, Liviu Andronic ha scritto:
Hello
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Scotti Roberto
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for caring. With this last fix playwith() could be an optimal
substitution of the Windows "register" graphics tool.
Unfortunately the practical side is quite hard and, up now, unsuccessful.
It takes hours to understand that 'pkg-config' is a system library, not an
R-package,
that installed GTK components are insufficient, you have to guess which one
of the 33 to-be-installed libgtk2 libraries are required
and then finally compilation an linkage start progressing when you discover
that 'cairoDevice()', this time an R component (??), has to be installed by
its self but ... here I am stuck, see error below: two members of DevDesc
appear as missing!!
Do you have any suggestion on how to proceed?
To build from source you need to have development files installed. On
Debian-based distros, you will mostly look for *-dev packages. For
example, you will probably need to install r-base-dev. For playwith, I
expect that you will need at least libgtk2.0-dev. As for cairoDevice
[1], you will need libcairo2-dev, I think. Then follow the error
messages for potential missing development files.
Regards
Liviu
[1] http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/cairoDevice/index.html
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