Re: [R] Pkg rgl: installation fails because of x11

2012-10-12 Thread ian
In my case R was not built with X support, and I was also missing some openGL libraries. The info I needed was in the README inside the unzipped tarball for rgl. But rgl cleaned up after failing the install, and deleted the README, so I never new the README was there until I manually untarr'ed

Re: [R] Pkg rgl: installation fails because of x11

2008-10-29 Thread Matthieu Stigler
Dear Duncan, Ben and Megha Thank you for your help! I tried sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl And so all necessitated package were installed and I could install rgl.. nice! Mat I believe the correct incantation is: sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl If that doesn't work, get back to us

Re: [R] Pkg rgl: installation fails because of x11

2008-10-28 Thread megha patnaik
This works. After installing the dependencies and installing RGL from inside R, library(rgl) rgl.open() should open a display window for you. 2008/10/27 Ben Bolker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: Matthieu Stigler wrote: Hello Im trying to

[R] Pkg rgl: installation fails because of x11

2008-10-27 Thread Matthieu Stigler
Hello Im trying to install package rgl in a freshly installed Ubuntu 8.04 system. I have a problem (actually is has been reported three times on the R-list but the answers were too complicated for me) when installing: configure: using libpng dynamic linkage checking for X... no configure: error:

Re: [R] Pkg rgl: installation fails because of x11

2008-10-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Matthieu Stigler wrote: Hello Im trying to install package rgl in a freshly installed Ubuntu 8.04 system. I have a problem (actually is has been reported three times on the R-list but the answers were too complicated for me) when installing: configure: using libpng dynamic linkage checking for

Re: [R] Pkg rgl: installation fails because of x11

2008-10-27 Thread Ben Bolker
Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: Matthieu Stigler wrote: Hello Im trying to install package rgl in a freshly installed Ubuntu 8.04 system. I have a problem (actually is has been reported three times on the R-list but the answers were too complicated for me) when