[R] R packages install problems linux - X not found (WhiteBox EL 3)

2004-08-08 Thread Dr Mike Waters 
Good evening everyone,

 

I am used to using R under Windows, but have done an install of 1.9.1 under
WhiteBox linux 3 (based on RHEL 3). This all went without a hitch, along
with most of the additional package installs. However, while trying to
install car and rgl I hit a problem regarding the X environment not being
found. As I was doing the install from a console *within* the X environment,
this is obviously down to a missing environment variable or link. The X11
directories all seem to be in the usual places. I've checked as much as I
can through the archives and googled around, but to no avail. Any help
appreciated.

 

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

 

Regards

 

M


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Re: [R] R packages install problems linux - X not found (WhiteBox EL 3)

2004-08-08 Thread Marc Schwartz 
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 12:32, Douglas Bates wrote:
 Dr Mike Waters wrote:
 
  I am used to using R under Windows, but have done an install of 1.9.1 under
  WhiteBox linux 3 (based on RHEL 3). This all went without a hitch, along
  with most of the additional package installs. However, while trying to
  install car and rgl I hit a problem regarding the X environment not being
  found. As I was doing the install from a console *within* the X environment,
  this is obviously down to a missing environment variable or link. The X11
  directories all seem to be in the usual places. I've checked as much as I
  can through the archives and googled around, but to no avail. Any help
  appreciated.
 
 Or a missing development package.  In many Linux distributions the 
 include files for X11 are in a separate package from the run-time 
 libraries.  I have never used WhiteBox Linux but I imagine that will be 
 the case for that distribution too.  Check to see if there is a package 
 with a name like xlibs-dev or x-dev.


Just to amplify on Doug's comments, the RPM in question should be
something like:

XFree86-devel-...

where the ... is replaced the by version numbering schema.

I am presuming that WhiteBox has not yet changed over to the use of
X.org in place of XFree86 at this point. If it has, then the RPM would
be something like:

xorg-x11-devel-...

An easy way to check for this would be to open a console window and use:

rpm -q XFree86-devel

in the first case or:

rpm -q xorg-x11-devel

in the second case.

If nothing is returned by the command, then it would confirm that you
are missing the requisite RPM.

In the case of the RGL package, you might want to review this recent
thread:

https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-August/thread.html

which indicates some issues related to the same devel libraries,
including the XFree86-Mesa-libGL (or xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL) and
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU (or xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU) RPMS.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

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Re: [R] R packages install problems linux - X not found (WhiteBox EL 3)

2004-08-08 Thread Marc Schwartz 
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 12:53, Marc Schwartz wrote:
 In the case of the RGL package, you might want to review this recent
 thread:
 
 https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-August/thread.html


Correction on the above URL. I pasted the wrong one here. It should be:

https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-August/053994.html

Marc

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