R help - Dec 2004 - No Graphics Window, Mandrake 10.1

Dear all,

I installed Mandrakelinux 10.1 (community) on my notebook. Before, I
used Mandrakelinux 9.1 (and later 10.0 as an update).
Now I wanted to compile, as before, R.
In the beginning, nothing worked but it seemed to be the problem of GCC
3.4.1 which was shipped with my distribution. After downloading and
compiling GCC 3.4.3 everything went smoothly during the compilation of
R.

The problem I have now is:
if I want to plot something, there is no window graphics popping up.
For example if I write
plot(1,1)
nothing happens.

Then I tried:
X11()
which resulted in:
Error in X11(): X11 is not available

Did somebody have similar problems? I guess there is nothing wrong with
R but with my installation because I tried:
- R-2.0.1.tar.gz
- R-devel_2004-12.20.tar.gz
- R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
All of them behaved completely the same in the respect.

I don't know whether it is required or not during the 
./configure
step to specify
./configure --with-x
I tried with and without but it did not change anything.

I also did 
make check
after 'make' and before 'make install' but I could not detect
anything
for this problem.

Any hints and suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Roland

The last version I tried was the following version:
> version
         _                           
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu           
arch     i686                        
os       linux-gnu                   
system   i686, linux-gnu             
status   Under development (unstable)
major    2                           
minor    1.0                         
year     2004                        
month    12                          
day      20                          
language R                           
> 


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You might need to install devel package(s) for X, which contain header files
that are needed.  When configure finished, do you see `X11' among the final
output?  If not, that may very well be the problem.

Andy
> From: Rau, Roland
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I installed Mandrakelinux 10.1 (community) on my notebook. Before, I
> used Mandrakelinux 9.1 (and later 10.0 as an update).
> Now I wanted to compile, as before, R.
> In the beginning, nothing worked but it seemed to be the 
> problem of GCC
> 3.4.1 which was shipped with my distribution. After downloading and
> compiling GCC 3.4.3 everything went smoothly during the compilation of
> R.
> 
> The problem I have now is:
> if I want to plot something, there is no window graphics popping up.
> For example if I write
> plot(1,1)
> nothing happens.
> 
> Then I tried:
> X11()
> which resulted in:
> Error in X11(): X11 is not available
> 
> Did somebody have similar problems? I guess there is nothing 
> wrong with
> R but with my installation because I tried:
> - R-2.0.1.tar.gz
> - R-devel_2004-12.20.tar.gz
> - R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
> All of them behaved completely the same in the respect.
> 
> I don't know whether it is required or not during the 
> ./configure
> step to specify
> ./configure --with-x
> I tried with and without but it did not change anything.
> 
> I also did 
> make check
> after 'make' and before 'make install' but I could not
detect anything
> for this problem.
> 
> Any hints and suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Roland
> 
> The last version I tried was the following version:
> > version
>          _                           
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu           
> arch     i686                        
> os       linux-gnu                   
> system   i686, linux-gnu             
> status   Under development (unstable)
> major    2                           
> minor    1.0                         
> year     2004                        
> month    12                          
> day      20                          
> language R                           
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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> Rese...{{dropped}}
> 
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