Dr Mike Waters
2004-Aug-08 17:20 UTC
[R] R packages install problems linux - X not found (WhiteBox EL 3)
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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Douglas Bates
2004-Aug-08 17:32 UTC
[R] R packages install problems linux - X not found (WhiteBox EL 3)
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.