R help - Feb 2005 - further issues with install.packages

Hi again,

I run R under SuSE 9.2 Professional (installed via rpm) and I am trying to 
install some packages from CRAN. The trouble is, after successful 
installations, my destdir directory is deleted...!

My command:
install.packages("Rcmdr", "/usr/lib/R/library",  
CRAN="http://cran.r-project.org",
destdir="/home/adi/Kituri/R.packages",
dependencies=TRUE)

After each package I get:
WARNING: UTF-8 locales are not currently supported

Package rgl gives:
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rgl'
** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl'
** Restoring previous '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl'
Warning message:
Installation of package rgl had non-zero exit status in: 
install.packages("rgl", "/usr/lib/R/library", CRAN = 
"http://cran.r-project.org",

Trying to run Rcmdr I get:
library(Rcmdr)
Loading required package: tcltk
Error in fun(...) : this isn't a Tk applicationcouldn't connect to
display
"homelinux.roda.local:0.0"
Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace for 'tcltk'
Error: package 'tcltk' could not be loaded

I have the tcl and tk packages installed under SuSE.

The command whereis g77 gives:
g77: /usr/bin/g77 /usr/share/man/man1/g77.1.gz

R.version
         _
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686
os       linux-gnu
system   i686, linux-gnu
status
major    2
minor    0.1
year     2004
month    11
day      15
language R

Could you please advice?
Thank you,
Adrian

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Hi Adrian,

Am Sonntag, 6. Februar 2005 15:22 schrieb Adrian Dusa:
> Hi again,
>
> I run R under SuSE 9.2 Professional (installed via rpm) and I am
> trying to install some packages from CRAN. The trouble is, after
> successful installations, my destdir directory is deleted...!
Rather strange? What about downloading all CRAN-packages in a selected 
directory, choosing in YAST this dir as an installation-resource? Try 
to install these packages again.
Does this work?

>
> My command:
> install.packages("Rcmdr", "/usr/lib/R/library",
> CRAN="http://cran.r-project.org",
> destdir="/home/adi/Kituri/R.packages", dependencies=TRUE)
>
> After each package I get:
> WARNING: UTF-8 locales are not currently supported
>
> Package rgl gives:
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rgl'
> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl'
> ** Restoring previous '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl'
> Warning message:
> Installation of package rgl had non-zero exit status in:
> install.packages("rgl", "/usr/lib/R/library", CRAN >
"http://cran.r-project.org",
Sure that your current installations meets all required dependencies? 
Related READMEs of the packages will tell you! (look especially for 
versioning information of the required apps)
>
> I have the tcl and tk packages installed under SuSE.
>
> The command whereis g77 gives:
> g77: /usr/bin/g77 /usr/share/man/man1/g77.1.gz
Not quite sure if you have the required versions of these progs? I am 
running Suse-9.2, so far this seem to work smoothly....


regards
Thomas