OK. Thanks, Dirk. That makes sense. I'll be sure to include the build errors next time.
John On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > On 15 June 2013 at 13:18, John Blischak wrote: > | | I am unable to install the R package XML using R 3.0.1 on Ubuntu > 12.04 > | LTS > | | (64-bit). After the installation failed using install.packages, I > | followed > | > | You did not detail this sufficiently, but installation from _source_ > | presumably failed because you did not have all the > build-dependencies. > | > | In this case where are pre-build _binary_ exists, you can use the > | metainformation for the _binary_ package to build the _source_ > package: > | > | sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-xml > | > | > | I apologize for not providing sufficient details. I am new to Ubuntu. > Could you > | please elaborate on how I could have obtained the information on the > | build-dependencies that would have been helpful for diagnosing the > problem? > > You didn't copy and paste your build errors. Typically, these show > 'configure' failing to find a header file, say, xml.h, which, once you > know, > gives away the issue. At that point you can often infer that > > if foo.h is missing > > and libfoo is installed > > you may need libfoo-dev to provide the header > > This mostly holds, but it sometimes obscured by adding major release > numbers > to libraries etc. > > The 'getting Ubuntu to give you build-deps' trick is both a bit more > advanced > and particular to the situation where a binary (here: r-cran-xml) exists > (but > was unuseable for the R 2.15.* vs R 3.0.* issue). > > | This was exactly the issue. Michael added the XML package to his PPA and > then I > | was able to install it with sudo apt-get install r-cran-xml. > > Yep. These repos are usually pretty reliable. > > Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
