R help - Sep 2003 - X11 not available

Hi All,

After compiling R-1.7.1 on a P4 running a default install of redHat 9 
(which of course has X11), I get the following error:
> x11()
Error in x11() : X11 is not available

This is surprising, because in ./configure I gave:

./configure \
--enable-R-shlib \
--with-x \
--with-lapack \
--with-gnome

Any idea why this is happening? It also occurs if i install the rpm from 
CRAN...
Thanks a lot in advance,
-Jose

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On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 17:52, Jose Quesada wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> After compiling R-1.7.1 on a P4 running a default install of redHat 9 
> (which of course has X11), I get the following error:
> > x11()
> Error in x11() : X11 is not available
> 
> This is surprising, because in ./configure I gave:
> 
> ./configure \
> --enable-R-shlib \
> --with-x \
> --with-lapack \
> --with-gnome
> 
> Any idea why this is happening? It also occurs if i install the rpm from 
> CRAN...
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> -Jose

Jose,

Make sure that you have installed the XFree86 Development RPM from the
RH CDs.

Open a console and type:

rpm -qa | grep XFree86-devel

You should get:

XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2

If you do not, you will need to install the XFree86 development RPM from
the RH CD's or remove the version of R you compiled and re-install using
the pre-compiled RPM that Martyn has on CRAN.

In order to compile the application from source, you need the 'devel'
libraries and headers installed on your system.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz