Hi I have problem running R (tried 1.8.0 and 1.7.1) under a fresh installed SuSE 9.0 using default settings: I'm not able to send plots to the monitor. Only postscript graphs are produced in external files. When assigning options(device='X11') and then plotting I get the message "Error in X11() : X11 is not available". Since this occured using the r-cran binary I tried to compile from source. However, the problem was not resolved. I do not have the competence for interpreting the output from the configure and make commands. Running the ./configure (also tried ./configure --with-x) I read the following line: checking for X... no and at the bottom: R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu ? Source directory: ? ? ? ? ?. ? Installation directory: ? ?/usr/local ? C compiler: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?gcc -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp -g -O2 ? C++ compiler: ? ? ? ? ? ? ?g++ -mieee-fp -g -O2 ? Fortran compiler: ? ? ? ? ?g77 -mieee-fp -g -O2 ? Interfaces supported: ? External libraries: ? ? ? ?readline ? Additional capabilities: ? PNG, JPEG, bzip2, PCRE ? Options enabled: ? ? ? ? ? R profiling ? Recommended packages: ? ? ?yes Thankful for any help on this matter.
I don't know much about SuSE but you probably don't have the X11 development libraries installed. You need those when compiling R from source. I'm not sure why the CRAN binary didn't work though.... -roger Sven Sandin wrote:> Hi > > I have problem running R (tried 1.8.0 and 1.7.1) under a fresh installed SuSE > 9.0 using default settings: I'm not able to send plots to the monitor. Only > postscript graphs are produced in external files. When assigning > options(device='X11') and then plotting I get the message "Error in X11() : > X11 is not available". > > Since this occured using the r-cran binary I tried to compile from source. > However, the problem was not resolved. I do not have the competence for > interpreting the output from the configure and make commands. Running the > ./configure (also tried ./configure --with-x) I read the following line: > > checking for X... no > > and at the bottom: > > R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu > > Source directory: . > Installation directory: /usr/local > > C compiler: gcc -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp -g -O2 > C++ compiler: g++ -mieee-fp -g -O2 > Fortran compiler: g77 -mieee-fp -g -O2 > > Interfaces supported: > External libraries: readline > Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, bzip2, PCRE > Options enabled: R profiling > > Recommended packages: yes > > Thankful for any help on this matter. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:33, Sven Sandin wrote:> Hi > > I have problem running R (tried 1.8.0 and 1.7.1) under a fresh installed SuSE > 9.0 using default settings: I'm not able to send plots to the monitor. Only > postscript graphs are produced in external files. When assigning > options(device='X11') and then plotting I get the message "Error in X11() : > X11 is not available". > > Since this occured using the r-cran binary I tried to compile from source. > However, the problem was not resolved. I do not have the competence for > interpreting the output from the configure and make commands. Running the > ./configure (also tried ./configure --with-x) I read the following line: > > checking for X... no > > and at the bottom: > > R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu > > Source directory: . > Installation directory: /usr/local > > C compiler: gcc -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp -g -O2 > C++ compiler: g++ -mieee-fp -g -O2 > Fortran compiler: g77 -mieee-fp -g -O2 > > Interfaces supported: > External libraries: readline > Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, bzip2, PCRE > Options enabled: R profiling > > Recommended packages: yes > > Thankful for any help on this matter.That error usually indicates that you do not have the X development source code files and headers installed. You would need those in order to compile R from source. That typically should not be a problem with the pre-compiled binaries however. HTH, Marc Schwartz